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Next Line, Please: The Violet of Roses [by Virginia Valenzuela]
Last week's post of Next Line, Please (poems inspired by a poet or poem from the past) left us with a little bit of a ghost, a shadow, something to be said. In other…
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Sunny days in the City of Light, women acquaintance, Aunt Helen, emotion and the bigger questions of history [by Tracy Danison]
"Les Enfants du 209, Rue Saint Maur, Paris Xème", directed by Ruth Zylberman is as absorbing as that wonderful Italian cinematic opera di saponi, La meglio gioventù, (The Best of Youth), directed…
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Stars and Stripes: Ballet by George Balanchine, the Russian émigré who loved America [by Stacey Lehman]
George Balanchine loved America. This Russian émigré choreographer, who founded the New York City Ballet with Lincoln Kirstein, delighted in everything from the songs of George Gershwin to the city's ''Don't Walk'' signs. When…
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Next Line, Please: Companionable Poems [by Virginia Valenzuela]
This week's visit to the world of Next Line, Please was not only a mini anthology of masterful poems, but a tender gaze into the beauty of poetry. Mr. Lehman's write-up of the conversational history…
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Hart Crane’s Epigraph for “A Streetcar Named Desire” [Epigraph of the Month by DL]
Tennessee Williams chose these lines from Hart Crane's poem "The Broken Tower" as the epigraph for’ A Streetcar Named Desire: And so it was I entered the broken worldTo trace the visionary company of…
