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  • Bing and the Boys Give Good Advice to Would-be Mules

    December 24, 2013

     

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  • Charles Trenet, Troubador [by Roger Gilbert]

    December 24, 2013

    (Ed note: We've been watching episodes of Spiral a French police procedural that's streaming on Netflix. It's wonderful, if a bit gruesome (I've had to leave the room more than once). The show has made…

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  • The Encounter Poem Part II by Laurence Goldstein

    December 24, 2013

    Pip meets Miss Havisham in David Lean's Great Expectations (1946) (Ed. note: This is a continuation of Laurence Goldstein's essay about the encounter poem. Find part one here.) Rules of the encounter poem:   …

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  • “I’ll give you the whole megillah in a one-word speech: / Reach!”

    December 23, 2013

     

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  • The Encounter Poem by Laurence Goldstein

    December 23, 2013

     (ed note: This is the first in a four-part series by Laurence Goldstein. Goldstein is Professor of English at the University of Michigan and Editor Emeritus of Michigan Quarterly Review (1977-2009).  His most recent…

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  • A Selection of Contemporary Australian Poems (Week 12)

    December 22, 2013

    Stuck in Traffic She meant it was good to yarn, no traumaNow you get how you mistookswotted totally at the braked drinks and slipped physics, you’re over She’s bumping in for the show and…

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