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  • The broad view from the “Bal perdu”: sudden transmogrification & Macron “à l’Elysée”

    June 17, 2017

    Metaphysical News: Reporter Jocaste L’Allemand caught this rare view of France’s Old Bones en marche for a future state, just minutes after Julie Gayet, a movie actress and the former “Chef d’état”’s inamorata, left a…

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  • “Redaction” [by Sean Speers]

    June 16, 2017

    I don't want to name drop butI saw a famous comedian on the street todayIt was Louis CK, on my way homefrom work. It’s strange, isn’t it, how we react to celebrity, dumband giddy…

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  • Shakespearean Take-Away (by Laura Orem)

    June 15, 2017

    As the New York Times recently reported, Delta and Bank of America have withdrawn their sponsorship of the Public Theater after pressure from those offended by the current production of Julius Caesar, whose title character…

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  • “My Favorite Gershwin Song (in the manner of David Lehman)” [by Lauren Hilger]

    June 14, 2017

    POSTED IN PANK ON JUNE 12, 2017 INTERVIEW BY LAUREN HILGER Poems in the Manner of… David Lehman’s most recent book speaks to the future by speaking to the poets who have come before. Featuring poems inspired…

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  • Literary Lipsticks [poem by Elaine Equi]

    June 12, 2017

    Red Wheelbarrow I Have Eaten the Plums Poppies in October Pink Christmas Red Weather A Rose Is a Rose Jaffa Juice Watermelon Sugar Frost at Midnight                         Elaine Equi

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  • Happy Birthday David!

    June 11, 2017

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