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  • What were you expecting, Professor Koch? (by Mitch Sisskind)

    July 22, 2018

    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]

    July 20, 2018

    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

    July 20, 2018

    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]

    July 20, 2018

    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]

    July 19, 2018

    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)

    July 19, 2018

                      "It's very difficult to criticize my French,                   since I speak perfectly."               …

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