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Photographs Can’t Rhyme, by Amy Holman
This picture I took today, a few days into spring, is part of what passes for pastoral in my Brooklyn neighborhood–a barn-shaped birdhouse visible through a vine-wrapped chicken wire fence at the Recreation Center…
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Taylor Worship, by Catherine R. Stimpson
My sister Mary called. "Elizabeth Taylor," she said. "Yes," I said. "I'm sorry," she said. "I am, too," I said. "You must be mourning." "I am." "You were obsessed with her," she said. "I was," I said. I was? I …
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Congratulations to Newest Hall of Famer John Ashbery by Stacey Harwood
We're pleased to announce that on the evening of Friday, April 1, in Albany, NY, the Empire State Center for the Book will induct John Ashbery into the New York State Writers Hall of…
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The Body of Poetry, by Amy Holman
Here is an odd little Elizabeth Taylor mixed media piece left over from an Etsy page that no longer exists. I suppose that poems will be wanted now that she has died. Maybe a 140-character Twitter…
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Good-bye, Liz (1932-2011)
National Velvet (1944) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) Cleopatra (1963) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)
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Sam Spade and Odysseus: Aries Triumphant (by Jill Baron)
In a previous discussion on astrology I presented W.H. Auden as a convincing though in the end inauthentic Aquarius, whose exact birth date falls not under the sign of the…