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Eliot’s Turn [by Thomas Moody]
Critics have often viewed the work of T.S. Eliot through the lens of his conversion to “Anglo-Catholicism” in 1927. His most famous poems, Prufrock, The Waste Land, and The Hollow Men, written before…
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Visiting Raftery the Poet in the Cemetery of the Poets [by Terence Winch]
Many decades ago, my brother Jesse took a beginners’ course in the Irish language. Out of that experience, he memorized a short, beautiful poem by Anthony Raftery, usually called “Mise Raifteirí.” When we were…
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“Come Rain or Come Shine” w/ Eileen Farrell and Leonard Bernstein [by David Lehman]
Tomorrow is Valentine's Dayand to get you in the moodhere's Eileen Farrell provingthat a great opera singer cansing great jazz (Arlen's music,Mercer's words),and listento Lenny play the pianoin the bridge he could havebeen a…
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“Instant Shave”: The invention that we need (high concept) [by David Lehman]
"We're calling it Instant Shave, a transformative producton the model of Instant Coffee, and it's your jobto create the damn thing. I don't care how you do itbut do it." The head of marketing…
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David Lehman and Angela Ball at Le Poisson Rouge
This Monday, February 12th, David Lehman and Angela Ball will be giving a poetry reading at Le Poisson Rouge of Bleecker Street. Join in for drinks, laughs, and a grand old time! Event…
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Happy birthday, Jimmy, the people’s cherce
Jimmy teaches Sinatra how to sing. . .' "It doesn't have to be witty or smart / just along as it comes from the heart"'
