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The Precarious Cliffs of the Loveliest Collarbones: Dante Di Stefano Reviews Jamaal May’s The Big Book of Exit Strategies
The Big Book of Exit Strategies Jamaal May Alice James Books, 2016 Jamaal May’s second collection of poetry, The Big Book of Exit Strategies, continues the bighearted, artful, dialogue with his phobias and his…
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Selves in Air: Part One [by Amy Allara]
Back in 2010 I wrote “The Perils of Modern Correspondence” which in large part was a lamentation of the world’s decreasing population of letters—bona fide letters assembled with paragraphs and substantive content, and yes,…
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Amy Allara Guest Author June 20-24
This week we welcome back Amy Allara as our guest author. Amy's poems, essays and book reviews have appeared in the following publications: Denver Quarterly, Psychoanalytic Perspectives, The New Review of Literature, OR: A Literary Tabloid, 26, Sycamore Review, and others.…
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“fiercely loyal and full of appreciation and affection.” Remembering Ted Greenwald (1942-2016) by Terence Winch
Ted Greenwald and I had been friends for more than 40 years. Around 1973, I saw a poem of his in a poetry magazine & loved it. I don’t remember the poem or the…
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No word was spoken
“Wartime, here as abroad, made everyone more eager for the civilized and peaceful excitement of ballet. More people could also afford tickets. And in wartime, the fact that no word was spoken on the…
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Obtuseness around the world series, Part 1
La question française: Is there a truly, special English stupidity? Once, when I was first here in France, I hurriedly hopped on a wrong train. With a particularly absorbing novel close to my nose,…
