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Unanswered Prayers: Remembering 22 November 1963 [Terence Winch]
JFK in Ireland Like many people my age, I have never shaken off the horrible shock of JFK’s murder fifty years ago. His abrupt removal from…
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November 22, 1963 [by Jim Cummins]
1 I sat in Miss Reynolds’s biology class the day we all remember what we were doing. I seem to recollect dissecting a fetal pig; but perhaps, like Vardaman, I only conflated physical and…
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Conspiracy and the What If (by Laura Orem)
When President Kennedy was assassinated, the world stopped, then shifted. In the way we now talk about September 11, for those who were alive and aware that November day fifty years ago, “I remember…
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Hump Day (plus one) Highlights by Stacey Harwood
David Lehman has a playlist to go with his New and Selected poems. You'll find it on Largehearted Boy. Did you miss the anniversary of The Gettysburg Address? Two Poems for Gettysburg by Catherine…
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Let’s Get Drunk [Charles Baudelaire’s Injunction; trans. David Lehman]
Charles Baudelaire, father of the French prose poem (and thus progentior of the genre internationally), used prose as the medium of choice for the manifesto, the plea, the diary entry, the dialogue, the truncated…
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The Year I Didn’t Kill Myself by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
November 21, 2013 Dear Mom, Yesterday I couldn’t seem to do it. Well, that sounds a bit more dramatic than I mean it to. Yesterday I couldn’t seem to get myself to write this…
