If you haven't stopped by in a while, here are a few items you may have missed:
Megin Jimenez on the language of the BP oil spill, translating Borges, and poetry readings.
Sports Desk: Gabrielle Calvocorresi on Big Ringing It with a peleton in Italy.
Mitch Sisskind's poem: "Terrible were the brick bungalows . . . "
Jennifer Michael Hecht's Psycho-philosophical hypothesis
And Lawrence Epstein on the Bob Dylan mask.
Scroll through for much more.
Plus this:
Now that The Nepotist has launched, we're inclined to applaud this new on-line journal as something fun and fanciful and, frankly, quite generous. The editor — who intends to remain anonymous – has invited his (her?) friends to submit poems, which he (or she) will publish, no questions asked, no rejections, no editing. From what we've read so far, the editor has talented friends. For more information, check it out the F.A.Q. here.
— sdh