-
Re-Visiting “The Reaper” [by Daniel Westover]
When I applied to the MFA program at McNeese State, the application process was straightforward: you sent some poetry or some fiction, and you either got a phone call or you didn’t. Test scores,…
-
Wild Medicine: A Poetry Walk at The New York Botanical Garden (through September 8, 2013) by Stephanie Paterik
"I am tired." The first line of Walahfrid Strabo's poem “Rose” is perched among the perennials in The New York Botanical Garden as if it grew from soil. And it’s how you feel when…
-
“Happy 48, Eleni Sikelianos!” [by Anthony Madrid via Facebook]
ELENI SIKELIANOS (5/31)You have to come essplainy’cuz dey nebber unnerston os.With a very happy birthday toEleni Sikelianos.The Lower Forty-eight complainThey canno grow bananos.With a very happy birthday toEleni Sikelianos.Zoologist, he plainly loveDe khippos and…
-
Hail to thee, O Vesper, Martini thou never wert
James Bond's invention, named after beautiful Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale (1953): "A dry martini," [Bond] said. "One. In a deep champagne goblet." "Oui, monsieur." "Just a moment. Three measures of Gordon's. one of…
-
Happy Birthday, May Swenson! [by Sharon Preiss]
Tuesday, May 28, would have been May Swenson’s 100th birthday. In her lifetime Swenson was a playwright, a professor, a lesbian, a Mormon, a translator, a lover of nature, a feminist, a critic, and…
