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Andrew Epstein’s Locus Solus (The Blog) [by David Lehman]
The New York School of poetry has long merited a blog or three of its own, and in Locus Solus, edited and written by Andrew Epstein, we who follow the lives and words of…
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Down the rabbit hole of literary enjoyment [by Alice Spiegel]
Alice slid down the cute and stopped along the way to enjoy — the poetry of F. T. Prince, represented with three exemplary poems, on Tom Clark's blog — a profile of Mets' announcer Gary…
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Groucho joins John Daly, Bennett A.Cerf, Dorothy Kilgallen, Arlene Francis, et al, on “What’s My Line?” (1959)
Hooray for live television. On this week's episode of "What's My Line?", Groucho joins the panelists: Of one guest whsoe occupation must be guessed he asks, "Are you a corrupt politician? Or am I…
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Jerome Sala Positively Shines in “Posit” [by David Lehman]
In the December 2016 issue of POSIT, Susan Lewis's magazine, you'll find a Jerome Sala poem that reflects the brilliance of his mind confronting the actualities of culture. In "To 'Content," Jerome takes on…
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Fragments 113-135 from Selected Squibs [by Alan Ziegler]
My paternal grandfather, Philip Ziegler, AKA: Crookedneck, Sam Ziegler, Ziggie, Philip Abrams, Philip Seigel, Philip Zeigler. On November 6, 1916 (four years before my father was born), my grandfather and a crony named Finkel…
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Columbo roasts Sinatra . . .and then Don Rickles does it [by David Lehman]
When Lt Columbia received the invitation to appear on the show, his "wife deposited the telegram in their safety deposit box until we can get it framed." Columbo hands Sinatra a bar napkin and…
