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RIP: Bill Berkson, poet, editor, mainstay of the NY School’s second generation
I had this e-mail exchange with Bill Berkson, April 21-22, 2016, regarding a "a fact check for [his] portrait of Kenneth [Koch] in a book of memoirs [he was] putting together and that Coffee…
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A Few Last Words, Lines, and Octaves [by Amy Allara]
My week as guest author has come to a close, and it seems quite fitting to take my leave after leaving you with David Lehman's poem "Radio" to read and listen to. For such…
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Fallacious, pathetic phenomenon likely to shape French future
Karine and I met in a café where a giant, silenced television screen scrolls bits of catastrophe: Raaqua drone strike! US mass shooting beneath jerky images. This, near the rue de Rivoli, early in…
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The Language of Old Magazines: Part Two [by Amy Allara]
“Coming events cast their shadows before” wrote the English poet Thomas Campbell—and according to Alfred Lindsay Morgan in his March 1949 Etude article “Winter’s End Radio Programs At Their Height”, “Radio belies the frequently…
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A June Afternoon – the Mets and Royals at Citi Field [by Greg Pattenaude]
I always enjoyed taking a day off from work in June to attend a Mets afternoon game. The schedule maker hasn’t been as kind in recent years in making this event possible. And even…
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Letter from London: Life in the Referendum #3
"Now, what was it I had to do today?" Now, I haven't been out yet – kept awake half the night by last night's epic thunderstorm, which has incidentally flooded half of London and the Southeast…
