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Moby Dick [poem and commentary by Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton]
Woodcut (c) Rockwell Kent Moby-Dick In those days priests preached of whales—devils they called them—their tiny eyes and pitchfork fins.Ahab talked to the whale’s severed head, sphinx- like and dumb as sand, said, “Tell…
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Gulliver’s Travels 2 [poem and commentary by Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton]
Book Two Now Gulliver seemed the little man, punkrocker, baby-faced spider falling through cracks.He was pelted with boulder-apples, attackedby a jealous dwarf who prided himself on baubleness, his keen resemblance to elves.Mishaps abounded: Peaches, hailstones,…
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Start Spreading the News: David Lehman talks Frank Sinatra, Thursday, December 3, 2015, 6:30PM – 8:00PM
Cooper Union 7 East 7th Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues, NYC Sinatra at the Liederkrantz Hall in New York, c.1947. Photo by William P. Gottlieb via the Library of Congress In a free,…
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Ulysses [poem and commentary by Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton]
Bloom used metempsychosis in a sentenceand Molly decided to have an affairwith a man whose orgasms felt like air,whose mind thought little but: "Look at those tits!"Bloom preferred masturbation, peeking quickat the buttocks of…
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Poem for Veterans Day: “Naming of Parts” (1942) by Henry Reed
Collage of Stacey's Father (c) Star Black Today we have naming of parts. Yesterday, We had daily cleaning. And tomorrow morning,We shall have what to do after firing. But to-day,Today we have naming of…
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Animal Farm [poem and commentary by Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton]
Old Major (Karl Marx) taught swine to readand organize. Snowball's (Trotsky's) Windmillflourished under Napoleon's (Stalin's)two-legged rule, oink rhetoric, the blightof the porcine underclass. Boars on hindlegs carried placards that read, "Power toBarnyards!" They buried…
