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Louise Glück, 1943-2023 [by David Lehman]
Last week, on Friday the 13th, Nobel laureate Louise Glück, wonderful poet and friend, died at the age of 80. Louise edited The Best American Poetry 1993, and the experience of working closely with…
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The Bravest Grope a Little [by Amanda Smeltz]
A brief reading of Emily Dickinson’s We Grow Accustomed to the Dark. We grow accustomed to the Dark —When light is put away —As when the Neighbor holds the LampTo witness her Goodbye —…
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Paula Bohince: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_______________________________________________________ Trespass Father’s paroled during the drought of seventy-eight only to vanish again, this time taking me…
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Silent Notes [by Lera Auerbach]
Silent Notes. Photo by Lera Auerbah When pianos are not played,they become very sad,they collect silent notes.Unplayed music floats – invisible dust of overtones.The dead are waiting expectantly:so many keys – 88 –…
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Mr. X [by Mary Jo Salter]
Mr. X By the time you're forty, you've met so many peopletheir features fit together as little bitsfrom other people, like the Identi-Kitsthat victims piece together with the police.The felon is memory, which takes…
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“The Birth of Tragedy” [Nietzsche’s opening shot]
<< Much will have been gained for aesthetics once we have succeeded in apprehending directly — rather than merely ascertaining — that art owes its continuous evolution to the Apollonian – Dionysian duality, even…
