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I’ll Never Ask the Houses [poem by Patricia Carlin]
where I’m going, the bright housesfar from corrupted air.Nowhere you’d risk – everywhere.The difference is death,or maybe it’s justuseless instruction. We love the dead, discredit the living.“The dead.” What is that? I’m a bare…
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Letter from Berlin #3 (Suggested Listening) [by Rodney Wilhite]
Beckett's "Not I" is a piece with which I am not familiar, but as I listened to it I found myself hypnotized as the speech in its urgency seemed to drift into the musical…
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Letter from Berlin #3 – Nicht ich [by Kathleen Heil]
Beckett's "Not I" at the Volksbühne, Berlin; Photo: David Baltzer To the degree that Berlin's culture demands a form of 'passing,' it is in the problematic tendency among those of us who belong to…
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GPS [poem by Patricia Carlin]
“Where are your times?” he sang near the band mates of tune at Joe’s pub on Tuesday question, and then answered it himself. “Your moment is nowhere but here.” He didn’t mean to seem pushy, really. …
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Next Line, Please: The Tragic Acrostic
Last week, David Lehman introduced the fateful Antigone as our muse for an acrostic poem styled after her name. There were many wonderful takes on the prompt, from Greek etymologies (titrate, expiklarate, and peripetaea)…
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Letter from Berlin #2 (Suggested Listening) [by Rodney Wilhite]
Seeing the dancer Corey Scott-Gilbert in the “DUST” video Kathleen linked in her blog post led me back to the video I’ve watched most this year, JLin’s “Carbon 7.” The way Scott-Gilbert’s elasticity and…
