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A Review of Vita Readings: Lit from the Basement
Vita Readings: Lit from the Basement, the new poetry podcast from poet, Danielle Cadena Deulen, and her husband, Max Stinson, offers entertainment and edification for general readers of poetry and for experts alike. The premise…
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Vin Scully, Gary Cohen, and Play-by-Play Poetry [by David Lehman]
Savo When Kirk Gibson hit perhaps the most unlikely home run in baseball history – when, hobbled with injuries, he pinch-hit with two out and a man on first base, and the Dodgers were…
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“More Titles for Bad Poems” [by David Lehman]
1) My First Backpack2) Bad Hair Day3) A Selfie with Pope Francis4) Brawn Trumps Brains5) Yiddish for Nudniks6) No Place Like Rome 7) Ode to the West Wing8) To Indite / To Indict9) The…
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“Why No Nobel Prize in Lit This Year: The Real Skinny” [by Morris Phillips]
From our Stockholm correspondent, Morris Phillips, a pretty obvious pseudonym for a chain-smoking friend of ours (pictured above): Dear David, By now you've heard the cover story. A bunch of women were sexually harassed,…
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“Tenderly” [by Angela Sundstrom]
Fuck me now in pale-fireparking garages, againstU-haul trucks and trellisedfences that tread-mark skin,against Victorian lamppoststhat lull with their flicker,on grated sidewalks, sideways,upside down in Ferris wheels inreverse in the backseat of theBuick accelerating exponentiallybetween…
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Cyrille Aimee Carries the Day [by David Lehman]
Cyrille Aimee of the curls proves vocally that “Three Little Words” as done with pianistic elegance by Dick Katz in 1992 remains a great jazz standard in the “I love you” category illustrated by Sinatra in “I…
