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Ready to Serve: “We don’t need you to be perfect.” [by Chelsea Whitton]
To be an excellent waitress or bartender, it is good to be physically coordinated and a linear thinker. I am neither of these. I am an unfailingly clumsy and largely disorganized person. It’s okay.…
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Communities of difference, communities of care [by tree turtle]
My posts this week on The Best American Poetry blog have all been about what it means to build writing communities of difference and writing communities of care. I am deeply grateful for this…
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What good are our literary efforts if we are dead? [by tree turtle]
I taught myself to read as a toddler to be close to my momma. My momma loathed me. I was, as she described me, her "sissy child" or the "changeling." Any admiration she had,…
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Tales of Food: The Ziti Movie [by Alan Ziegler]
One Saturday in 1974 I plan my eating day around the baked ziti at Mama’s, a little fast-Italian restaurant a couple of blocks from the New Yorker Theater on 89th St., where…
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An Interview with Richard Schober, Editor of The Whole Shot: Collected Interviews with Gregory Corso [by Daniel Nester]
It seems fitting that there's a Kickstarter campaign to publish a book related Gregory Corso. Back in the 1990's I remember stories, perhaps apocryphal, of Corso walking around the Poetry Project and telling people to give…
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When the flesh is husk, does the spirit speak? [by tree turtle]
Are the dead still with us? When the flesh is husk, does the spirit speak? Can a love be everlasting? Can a hurt be overlong? After a predator dies, are his crimes still wrong? When…
