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Next Line, Please: What Can Save Us?
That's right, everybody! Tuesday is here and so is another week in the life of Next Line, Please. Last week's prompt was inspired by the clever, punchy, and thoughtful poetry of Marianne Moore. This week's…
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Halloween Parade [song by Lou Reed]
I didn't fully appreciate the poignancy of this song until I moved to NYC and watched the parade: sdl
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Comment c’est (by Mitch Sisskind)
As feminine beauty such as that Of Annabella Sciorra, for instance, In the 1990s irrefutably testifies to Celestial virtue, does contrarywise Harvey Weinstein’s graying flesh Express nature’s malevolent side, So that Harvey…
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This! On “breath to oblivion no ladder no chaser” from Finely Tuned Static by Charles Borkhuis [by Susan Lewis]
When I was invited to guest blog for Best American Poetry, I immediately thought of a marvelous post on Harriett by John Beer, in which he thoughtfully explores one poem by Carol Ciavonne (a…
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What’s My Line? — an early episode (1950)
Louis Untermeyer, the rgeat editor and anthologist, is one of the panelists along with Arlene Francis and Dorothy Kilgallen. And the mystery guest plays a mean clarinet.
