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  • I watched the Moon around the House (629) by Emily Dickinson

    December 21, 2010

    I watched the Moon around the HouseUntil upon a Pane — She stopped — a Traveller’s privilege — for Rest — And there upon I gazed — as at a stranger — The Lady in the TownDoth…

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  • Not very Christmassie…. (by Mitch Sisskind)

    December 20, 2010

    I apologize but at this time of year the Cuban missile crisis is often on my mind. Poem, 12-20-2010 A sad and strange dream Of the ’62 missile crisis And high school football, At…

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  • Argument by Amy Glynn Greacen

    December 20, 2010

    A prominent poet who shall go unnamed once sat down across the table from me, a manila folder of my drafts in one hand, and said, without so much as a hello:“You know what’s…

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  • Diminuendo by Sarah Paley

    December 20, 2010

    Dogs bark Jingle Bells!  Jingle Bells! in malls, Mice skate on thin ice wearing red scarves, Donations have been made to most worthy causes   making it impossible to re-gift, Evergreens are tied up like…

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  • On the Senate Vote: Sisyphus Makes It Stick by Catharine Stimpson

    December 20, 2010

     At 10:50 a.m.  on Saturday, December 18, my partner Liz and I stopped cutting cubes of cheddar for macaroni-and-cheese and turned on C-Span. The United States Senate was about to decide whether to move…

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  • December 19, 2010

    One night only!  Announcing the CD release performance of  The Edna Project – The poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay set to music by Red Wall Records' Liz Queler and Seth Farber: Monday Dec.…

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