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Tales the Fifties: Elegy for the Little Man [by Alan Ziegler]
One of my second-grade classmates has the demeanor of a little man. In 1953 Brooklyn, boys are required to wear ties to school; most of us have one or two clip-ons, worn until they…
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Rachel [by Mitch Sisskind]
Mitch the sad old poet stared into the void. He had read in Genesis 2:18 that "it was not good for the man to be alone" but the man was alone. What then was…
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Max Ritvo’s Four Reincarnations [by Alan Ziegler]
I have concluded my self-imposed hiatus from this blog, and will be posting regularly again. But I wanted to pre-restart with a note about Max Ritvo's forthcoming book of poems, Four Reincarnations, which will be published…
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Meet the Press: Dante Di Stefano in Conversation with Crystal Simone Smith of Backbone Press
DD: In her famous essay, “Poetry is Not a Luxury” Audre Lorde writes: “Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a…
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Britain fogged in, all-nighters bring France to the brink
Hot conversations await France's hard-pressed sea, sex & sun seekers The British EU referendum and the supposed decision of certain of France’s unions to go head-to-head with the government over a planned protest march made…
