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“nothing is complete now without architecture” [by Andrei Codrescu]
My lovely freedom my little chestnut blinking your one eye bring back to me a quarter of a century of missing melancholia. For each Fall I missed there was a drought of wistfulness as…
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Save the Date: September 28, 2017 – The Best American Poetry 2017 Launch Reading
cover image (c) Anna Cypra Oliver Thursday, September 28 at 7 PM - 9 PM The Auditorium at The New School 66 W 12th St, New York, New York 10011 Every year, poets travel from near…
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Fragments 137-147 from Selected Squibs [by Alan Ziegler]
In 1957 Bobby Darin introduced me to Paul Anka. In 1875 Stéphane Mallarmé, carrying a large portfolio, wanders the streets of London looking for Algernon Swinburne, intent on discussing their shared admiration for Edgar…
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Andrew Epstein’s Locus Solus (The Blog) [by David Lehman]
The New York School of poetry has long merited a blog or three of its own, and in Locus Solus, edited and written by Andrew Epstein, we who follow the lives and words of…
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Down the rabbit hole of literary enjoyment [by Alice Spiegel]
Alice slid down the cute and stopped along the way to enjoy — the poetry of F. T. Prince, represented with three exemplary poems, on Tom Clark's blog — a profile of Mets' announcer Gary…
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Groucho joins John Daly, Bennett A.Cerf, Dorothy Kilgallen, Arlene Francis, et al, on “What’s My Line?” (1959)
Hooray for live television. On this week's episode of "What's My Line?", Groucho joins the panelists: Of one guest whsoe occupation must be guessed he asks, "Are you a corrupt politician? Or am I…
