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“Mushrooms” [poem by Sylvia Plath]
I love this sly poem: Sylvia Plath Reads "Mushrooms" from Alex Allan on Vimeo. — sdl
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Paris fêtes long-time friend of humanity [by Paul Tracy Danison]
Parisians woke to this elegant celebration of Idiocy on Tuesday morning. The headline reads: “Attacks by ISIS coming one after another: Terror without end.” The legend: “Yesterday in Las Vegas”. Sources say that Fox…
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Missing That September Feeling [Greg Pattenaude]
The 2017 baseball regular season has come to an end. For the Mets, it was over sometime around mid May. A lethal combination of injuries, over hyped expectations, and just plain awful play lead…
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The Death Cross (and Other News) [by David Lehman]
They asked me to write "poetry in real time," and I said I would do it if I could do it in prison. "Even better," they said. So I sat and waited, waited and…
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Fragments 157-168 from Selected Squibs [by Alan Ziegler]
Gorky wrote in My Universities: “I do not like the moon.” As for me, I adore the moon, in all its phases. I spent a year building a boat that could take you back…
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Epigraph of the Month (1st place)
This is the epigraph that Edgar Allan Poe chose for "The Murders in the Rue Morgue": "What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling…
