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  • “By Brueghel” [by Maria Richardson]

    January 18, 2014

    He chose to show for harvesta time of rest, when there remains gold to be shaved, full sectionsof the cake cut, unevenly parceled out. But we forget the rawgold when there is bread, cheese…

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  • Meet the Press: Nin Andrews in Conversation with Shanna Compton, Editor of Bloof Books

    January 18, 2014

    Shanna Compton NA: How did Bloof Books begin, and how long has it been in existence? SC: We published our first books in 2007. I had been working as the Poetry Editor & Associate…

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  • “Translation” of Charles Baudelaire’s “Le Vin Des Amants” by Sandra Simonds

    January 17, 2014

    I Love Wine! Today, omg, I’m just so spaced out and splendid,            as I walk this earth without death, without an apron, without being a wife and so my heart becomes the nostrils…

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  • LOVE NEVER DIES by Michael Lally

    January 17, 2014

    LOVE NEVER DIES Lots of shit diesLove doesn’t Parts of me areAlready dead But love isn’t…My appendix Dead and buriedMy prostate and A disc from my backDead and gone too And parts of my…

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  • “True Detective”: Making eloquent TV with hardboiled monologues [by Ken Tucker]

    January 16, 2014

    I’d pretty much had it with serial-killer narratives – on TV, in movies, in pop novels. I was tired of the dead-helpless-women trope that recurs in too many of these plots, weary of the…

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  • Mr. Bernanke: Could we have avoided Lehman?

    January 16, 2014

    Question: Could we have avoided Lehman? Departing Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke: Even with Lehman. . .[we almost didn't get the TARP]. One congressman told me he had heard from his constituency. 50%…

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