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In the New Yorker’s summer “flash fiction” series: “Tales Told To Tevye”
In The New Yorker's summer "flash fiction" series, "Tales Told To Tevye" was posted yesterday. You can read the three-art story here. Illustration by Ricardo Tomás; Source photograph by Cornell Capa / The LIFE…
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The Best American Poetry 2020: Series Editor David Lehman, Guest Editor Paisley Rekdal
The 2020 edition of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Paisley Rekdal, the award-winning poet and author of Nightingale, proving that this is “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title”…
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“Anxieties” [by Donna Masini]
It's like ants and more ants. West, east their little axes hack and tease. Your sins. Your back taxes. This is your Etna,your senate of dread, at the axisof reason, your taxi to hell. You see your past…
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Dispatch From A Distance – Whose Woods [by Cara Benson]
“Land is life – or, at least, land is necessary for life.” Patrick Wolfe “Whose woods these are I think I know” begins the canonized Robert Frost poem about stopping on a horse one…
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Francois Villon, Rascal Poet [by David Lehman]
The original bad-boy poet roamed the countryside of fifteenth-century France. Francois Villon narrowly escaped the gallows; a vagabond and a thief, he cast his major poems in the form of satiric versions of a…
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For Summer: Poems by Latina/o/xs: Yesenia Montilla
Eartha Kitt As Muse by Yesenia Montilla The eyes are two saucers filled with every forlorn woman’s last meal: roasted chicken & a good Bordeaux & how the heart is found in the neck’s…
