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He’s dead, Gym. [stealth post by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Darlink Bleaders, It’s Saturday and I’ve spent the whole day running around the East and West Village on a puzzle hunt called DASH. It happened in cities all over the country today, same puzzles,…
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Graham Greene Goes to Havana [by David Lehman]
Here's to William H. Pritchard, an old-line English professor who takes his reading seriously and writes about it for the Sewanee Review. In the Winter 2010 issue of the venerable journal, Pritchard reviews an…
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PAUl TILLICH: PART 5; Martin Buber [by Matthew Yeager]
PAUL TILLICH PART 5: Mysterium Tremendum, Martin Buber, In some of the typing about Tillich, and particularly about Einstein, I have found a dry taste forming in the top of my mouth. Never good. …
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Last Monday at KGB Bar [by Megin Jimenez]
Last Monday at KGB Bar, our own series founder Star (“I can’t be a celebrity because I punctuate”) Black, took to the podium with friend and city poet Geoffrey O’Brien. Star read from her…
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Dianne Blakely tours the South (by David Yezzi)
Dianne Blakely is a phenomenal poet, and just now she's publishing a series of articles on Swampland.com about lesser-known but wonderful Southern poets that is well worth a look. First up are Lisa Russ…
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Paul TILLICH: PART 4
Wow what a beautiful day, blog readers! I’m at the window here, watching cats watching whishing leaves, armed with my NJOY electric cigarette, an ingenious contraption that allows you to inhale nicotine-infused water vapor. I’m…
