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“Lunching with Elaine Equi” [by David Lehman]
Sometimes, when lunching alone, I bring Elaine Equi along for company,rereading Ripple Effect sipping a cup of strong black coffee and slippinginto the room where Fairfield Porter paints the light, and solituderhymes with altitude,…
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On the Erotic in Poetry and Literature (part I) [by David Lehman]
In My Secret Life (c. 1890), that classic work of late Victorian pornography, the author, an anonymous gentleman with a raging libido and the compulsion to repeat and record his…
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Next Line, Please: Homage to Anna Kamienska [by Virginia Valenzuela]
Last week on Next Line, Please the notoriously clever David Lehman proposed two of Anna Kamienska’s aphorisms—“Sleep is what I’ll miss most when I die,” and “I walk around disguised as an overweight old lady”—as…
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A Peck of Pickles and Poetry [review of “The Pickling Poet”] by Jennifer L. Knox
As a poet and cook, the pickle/poetry connection is obvious to me. A poem preserves a moment. No matter what emotion of that moment (wonder, surprise, grief, love, etc.), in its preserved poem form,…
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Ready, Set, Summer: “Celebrating 100 Years Of Leonard Bernstein, Boston Pops Showcase ‘On The Town’” [by Lloyd Schwartz]
(Ed note: Lloyd Schwartz is the classical music critic for NPR’s Fresh Air and senior editor of Classical Music for New York Arts. His latest book of poems, "Little Kisses," was published by the University of…
