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“A Poem for the Innocents,” by Geoffrey Philp
A Poem For the Innocents A killing moon peeks through leaves of trumpet trees in full bloom for Lent, their barks crisscrossed by wild strokes of a machete when my son tried to…
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Shout Out to Frederick Seidel and Marc Maron [by Amy Lawless]
Why isn't ANYONE talking about the Frederick Seidel poem in the New Yorker in the January 10, 2011 issue? Why does it have to be me? I barely showered today. I was at the…
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Big Mack Attack by Stacey Harwood
Ever since David and I moved into our apartment, I've gotten enormous pleasure on most days from walking past the building manager's office (down the hall from our place) and seeing Mack. (That's Mack,…
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Saul Bellow on the Artist’s Imperative
How do you judge a work of art? What is the artist's first imperative? Here's Saul Bellow's take — from a letter to Alfred Kazin:"The first criterion is enjoyment, and so are the second…
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Saul Bellow on “victimization” — and Allan Bloom on Bellow: Quotes of the Day
"I came some time ago to think of despair and victimization as being at the service of the ruling class and the whole social edifice. it is the way in which imagination and intelligence…
