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Fragments 148-156 from Selected Squibs [by Alan Ziegler]
A child watches with delight as the worker bangs away at plaster: loud noise, destruction, making a mess—and it’s all right with everyone. In our first stay in Paris, each night I stop at…
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Nadia Vadori-Gauthier’s one-minute dance numbers: “towards a sweeter way of living” [by Paul Tracy Danison]
Nadia Vadori-Gauthier’s 60-second micro-political resistance videos open doors, bring out the poetic resonance of everyday life Number. House number. Queue number. Social security number. Numbered bank accounts… What’s in a name, indeed. What’s in…
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Red Smith Hits It Out of the Park, with Roger Angell’s comments [by David Lehman]
Red Smith would never have predicted that the illustrious Library of America would collect the columns he typed on short deadlines for the New York Herald Tribune, publish them lovingly, and dub him "America's…
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“nothing is complete now without architecture” [by Andrei Codrescu]
My lovely freedom my little chestnut blinking your one eye bring back to me a quarter of a century of missing melancholia. For each Fall I missed there was a drought of wistfulness as…
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Save the Date: September 28, 2017 – The Best American Poetry 2017 Launch Reading
cover image (c) Anna Cypra Oliver Thursday, September 28 at 7 PM - 9 PM The Auditorium at The New School 66 W 12th St, New York, New York 10011 Every year, poets travel from near…
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Fragments 137-147 from Selected Squibs [by Alan Ziegler]
In 1957 Bobby Darin introduced me to Paul Anka. In 1875 Stéphane Mallarmé, carrying a large portfolio, wanders the streets of London looking for Algernon Swinburne, intent on discussing their shared admiration for Edgar…
