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Grief, Literally: Three Books [by Sharon Preiss]
On September 12 in 2008, on a sunny Southern California day, Karen Green came home from a short errand to find her husband, who…
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Formalism on Ecstasy [by A. Van Jordan]
I’m almost embarrassed to admit this, but it was just in the last two years that I actually read the Pulitzer Prize winning collection Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks. Of course, I had read…
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FTP Hamlet (by Laura Orem)
To be, or not to be – the is the question: – She tis mob I. The mind to us TV skin and aero of outrageous forty, I to take at against a sea…
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What Poets Can Learn From Film [by A. Van Jordan]
I’ve been teaching at the Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) Postgraduate Conference for the past week, and while there I had a few moments when my vision of poetry expanded. I don’t mean…
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Considered Speech: A Tiny Note In Memory of John Hollander — Amy Glynn Greacen
John Hollander died this past Saturday, at the age of 83. Many people, who knew him far better than I, have written and will write about John, his accomplishments and contributions to the world…
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“Downsides” [by Denise Duhamel] in Martin Stannard’s One-Shot Hit Lit Mag
–for Samantha Brick Seems I can’t go anywhere without some dude trying to get inside my frontal lobe. Just once I’d like to go to a hotel bar without hearing, “Nice brain stem!…