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“Too Marvelous for Words” [as in “Dark Passage” with Bogart and Bacall]
I remember the first time I heard it. Jo Stafford sang it in Dark Passage, a late 1940s black-and-white movie in which you don’t see the face of the hero, a prison escapee who…
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“Diamond Sutra” [by Ed Ochester]
The reader says "this is my last poem but"–smiling–"it's twenty minutes long" then reads an epigraph from the Diamond Sutra saying life's one long series of illusions– which, like his poem, is boring too…
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A Real Mensch in Today’s WSJ: The Best (and Worst) Investments They Ever Made
Luminaries in Finance and Other Fields Reveal Their Greatest Hits—and Biggest Misses: Dana Gioia ZUMAPRESS Dana Gioia, professor of poetry and public culture, University of Southern California, and former chairman of the National Endowment…
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Bitching with Nicole: On Becoming a Prick by Nin Andrews
Last winter, Nicole Santalucia, published her first book, Driving Yourself to Jail in July, a delightful chapbook full of the spunk and spirit and incredible life stories. After its arrival, Nicole wrote and asked…
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This Just In: WORDS ON A WIRE with Emma Trelles
Words on a Wire is KTEP's show about fiction, poetry, the writing community, the publishing world and whatever other issues concern literary writers and readers of books. On October 26, Daniel Chacón spoke with Emma Trelles, whose 2011…
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A Public Service Announcement: How to tie a bow-tie [by Stacey Harwood]
The bow-tie is having more than a moment. Consider this: David and I recently visited Benjamin Peters mens' clothing store in Ithaca, New York. Where just a few years ago the bow-ties would have…
