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Ashbery’s “The Skaters” — Great Poems of the World, episode 16, with David Lehman and Mitch Sisskind
Here's Part One of "The Skaters," John Ashbery's 700 line poem that appeared in his book titled Rivers and Mountains (1966.) The complete poem is available at this link: John Ashbery, "The Skaters" The Skaters I These…
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Happy Birthday, Emily Dickinson
I am alive — I guess —The Branches on my HandAre full of Morning Glory —And at my finger's end — The Carmine — tingles warm —And if I hold a GlassAcross my Mouth…
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Emma Bolden: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_____________________________________________________________________________ My Mother Says There’s Beauty Even in the Midst of Loss but I am no longer listening, I am no longer looking out of the car window & into the outside…
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“An Alley in Avignon” [by Mary Jo Salter]
November tourist, muscling my way throughthe mistral, guidebook in hand, I turned intoa wind-tunnel alley, looking for 22rue du Roi René, which as I knew no longer marked the cloister of St Clare.Fitting, I…
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Magic movements, body and space: “Aux Lointains” by Aurélien Dougé [By Tracy Danison]
“Aux Lointains” by Aurélien Dougé. Photo © Olivier Miche When we were kids, we believed in magic movements – I don’t know where we got that from but we got it; I myself remember…
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A tip of the fedora to Ira Gershwin, born December 6
There are still two hours left before the sixthof December gives way to the day of infamyenough time to mark the birth of Ira,George's older brother, and what betterway to honor the lad who…
