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What were you expecting, Professor Koch? (by Mitch Sisskind)
What did you think was going happen, anyway? Don’t say you were never warned! Old Herrick’s “Live here blitheful while ye may” gets the message Across, or how about this one: “The worms crawl…
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Footnoose and Fancy Free [by Jennifer L. Knox]
We spent most of the afternoon in the shallow end floating around drunk. We grabbed people, lit off fireworks and pointed them at the people we’d grabbed. We riffled through drawers, broke a strand…
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New School After Hours at KGB Bar
The New School After Hours on July 20th, 2018 Come one, come all, to the hippest literary scene in the East Village!Hosted by Virginia Valenzuela Every third Friday of the month, New Schoolers new…
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Next Line, Please: The Alphabet as Hero [by Virginia Valenzuela]
Come one, come all, to the newly renovated digital platform for Next Line, Please on the American Scholar! You will like what you see. And now to the good stuff. Last week's post featured poems…
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The Dipsy Doodle [by David Lehman]
Of all the pinball machines in all the zinc-bar cafes in Paris, and there were many, the one that I recall playing most often with my chums was Dipsy Doodle. The name didn't mean…
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After Koch (by Mitch Sisskind)
"It's very difficult to criticize my French, since I speak perfectly." …