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Ulysses [poem and commentary by Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton]
Bloom used metempsychosis in a sentenceand Molly decided to have an affairwith a man whose orgasms felt like air,whose mind thought little but: "Look at those tits!"Bloom preferred masturbation, peeking quickat the buttocks of…
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Poem for Veterans Day: “Naming of Parts” (1942) by Henry Reed
Collage of Stacey's Father (c) Star Black Today we have naming of parts. Yesterday, We had daily cleaning. And tomorrow morning,We shall have what to do after firing. But to-day,Today we have naming of…
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Animal Farm [poem and commentary by Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton]
Old Major (Karl Marx) taught swine to readand organize. Snowball's (Trotsky's) Windmillflourished under Napoleon's (Stalin's)two-legged rule, oink rhetoric, the blightof the porcine underclass. Boars on hindlegs carried placards that read, "Power toBarnyards!" They buried…
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It’s time for a refresher lesson on “OY”
It occurred to me after reading this article in today's New York Times that it might be time for a refresher on the proper uses of "Oy" so I pulled these helpful illustrations by Mitch…
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A Partial Autobiography of Funny in Ten Takes [by Alan Ziegler]
1) My first attempt at physical comedy; age 4: The Set-up. With my family in Manhattan for the first time, I am told that the Empire State Building is a skyscraper. As we get…
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Caged But Free … Lehman has picked line five of the crowd-sourced sonnet. You can write line six.
David Lehman has picked line five of the crowd-sourced sonnet-in-progress over at the American Scholar. You have until November 15 to write line six. Here's the sonnet to date: Our dreams as disparate as our…
