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Kissinger to Hillary: Take Heart, There Might be Hope [by David Lehman]
On May 2, 2013, CNN proleptically ran a news segment in which Henry Kissinger advised Hillary Clinton on the life she may expect to lead after serving as secretary of state. It is an…
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“Ex-Basketball Player” [by John Updike]
Pearl Avenue runs past the high-school lot,Bends with the trolley tracks, and stops, cut offBefore it has a chance to go two blocks,At Colonel McComsky Plaza. Berth’s GarageIs on the corner facing west,…
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A sudden thought overtakes me a morning in November
Rue des Pyrénées, Paris 20ème, a shoemaker's display window I shall buy a silver boat. I shall be its captain. It shall be a bark and I upon its poop. At the helm,…
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Oh Frabjous Day! [ by Charles Coe ]
I was walking downtown Boston in a post-apocalypse (umm…I mean "post-election") funk and passed a couple of scruffy-looking young white guys in Red Sox gear standing in front of…
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The Jumblies after Edward Lear (by Nin Andrews)
Forgive the political nature of this comic–I like to think of this blog as a sacred space where we all breathe more easily. But all week I have been thinking of this Edward Lear poem.…
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“Leonard Cohen’s Psalms” (by Lawrence J. Epstein)
King David was Leonard Cohen’s most influential artistic ancestor. As the supposed author of the Book of Psalms, David wrote poetry that was meant to be sung. And not just any poetry, but poetry…
