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Francois Villon Begins His Journey [trans. David Lehman]
for Paul Violi In my thirtieth year,Drunk and no stranger to disgrace,I grin wisely from ear to earDespite the fear I’ve had to face,Clown that I am, condemnedBy Thibaud d'Assole’s commandThreatened and even damnedBy…
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Because We Come from Everything: Poetry & Migration: Brenda Cárdenas
On the Coast in Pedasi by Brenda Cárdenas Beached boats litter coves, sails sprawled like abandoned skirts of lovers asleep on the sand. The empty zocalo simmers— a secret waiting to be whispered,…
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Ron Horning & Christine Kanownik at DIA Tuesday March 14
Ron Honing and Christine Kanownik will read from their poems at DIA on Tuesday, March 14, 2017, at 6:30 PM. More information here.
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Alchemical, the Body Becomes a Mound of Jewels, an Ancient Hunger: Dante Di Stefano Reviews Kaveh Akbar’s Portrait of the Alcoholic
Portrait of the AlcoholicKaveh AkbarSibling Rivalry Press, 2017 In his essay, “Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking,” Lewis Hyde notes: “as a person becomes alcoholic he turns more and more into…
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Auden’s “Parlor Game for a Wet Afternoon” [by David Lehman]
“Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow. “A parlor game for a wet afternoon — imagining the mirrors of one's friends.…
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“The expression on her face is business-like, as though she were signing a check.” Revisiting a classic: My Dog Tulip by J. R. Ackerley
J.R.Ackerley and Tulip Dogs read the world through their noses and write their history in urine. Urine is another and highly complex source of social information; it is a language, a code,…
