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Seeking the Feet, part 1 [by Kathleen Heil]
Warhol & an unidentified breakdancer in his Factory, early 1980s. Photo: Paige Powell The connections between painting and poetry have long been explored—Ut pictura poesis and all that good stuff—yet it seems to me that the closest…
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When Sinatra Campaigned for FDR [by David Lehman]
Photo Illustration by Emil Lendof/The Daily Beast Conservatives had a field day when FDR enlisted the Hoboken crooner who made girls faint. That was just the beginning for Sinatra. Here, an excerpt from…
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Every End Must Have a Beginning: Waiting for the Dead to Speak by Brian Fanelli [review by Patricia Welch
Now, perhaps more than ever, Brian Fanelli’s second full-length collection of poetry, Waiting for the Dead to Speak, is a much-needed celebration of hope and humanity in small-town America. This collection set mostly…
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“sweet home lambs”: an interview with translator Jake Schneider [by Kathleen Heil]
Jake Schneider is a Berlin-based editor and translator from the German, born in 1988 in New Jersey. The incoming Editor-in-Chief of SAND, Berlin's English-language literary journal, his literary translations have appeared in Circumference, Washington…
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Silence Please: The Appeal of Dance During Hard Times [by Stacey Lehman]
Sara Mearns in Alexei Ratmansky’s Fandango. At back: (L to R): Scott Borg, Elena Heiss, and Felix Fan of the FLUX Quartet. Photo: Erin Baiano “Wartime, here as abroad, made everyone more eager for…
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Kathleen Heil, Guest Author November 7-11 and Introducing Martin Stannard
moystrela; Berlin, Oct 2016 This week we welcome Kathleen Heil as our guest author. Kathleen is a writer, translator, and dancer based in Berlin. Recent poems appear or are forthcoming in The New Yorker,…
