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10/22/2019 (by Mitch Sisskind)
It’s my birthday, I’m 147, I’m 741,I wake in darkness lying on my sideAnd as I feel a very slight stirring Against my back I wonder mightThis be from the Cthulhu Mythos:Yig, or Olkoth,…
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Noted with Pleasure [by Stacey Lehman]
On Sundays my father brought home the New York Times and a dozen bagels. We spread out the sections on the dining room table and sometimes read aloud to each other. Mostly, we ate…
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Mary Jo Bang and David Lehman Read Their Poems at DIA
Happy birthday, Mary Jo Bang. . .
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Harley McNair, Student [by Mitch Sisskind]
Harley McNairStudent “Hi, are you from Possumneck?”This is the greatest pickup line In the world but you got to knowHow to say it like you’re excited, So It’s not like a question, like itEnds with an…
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Harold Bloom: Every Inch a Genius [by David Lehman]
Harold Bloom, the Yale University eminence who died last week at age 89, was the most famous, most prolific, and—to use the apt word—most influential literary critic in America from the time he published The Anxiety…
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Ballet de Lorraine’s “For Four Walls” puts a mirror to Merce Cunningham’s palimpsest [by Tracy Danison]
Petter Jacobsson/Thomas Caley, “For Four Walls”, Ballet de Lorraine 2019©Laurent Philippe Histoires sans histoire(s) is an intercalation of Petter Jacobsson and Thomas Caley’s For Four Walls and Merce Cunnigham’s Fabrications and Sounddance, staged at…
