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“They say a man’s shoes are the first thing a person notices. . .”
I can still see his in my mind. Leather boots, dark like night, shining like mirrors. I'd never seen such shoes. In the tiny town of Pavlovo, Czechoslovakia, where I grew up, everyone had…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: October 11, 2023
It’s not unusual to find poets writing about pop songs, but it is unusual for a poet to write an entire book centered on pop music. Enter the very funny Matt Mason, the Nebraska…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Sixty): Noelle Kocot [by Angela Ball]
CRYSTAL GAYLE My mother picks her arm Like a gorilla Searching for lice * I am stable now, But the world is not. * I go to see my trees In the mornings— Horace,…
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“Question” [by May Swenson]
Question Body my housemy horse my houndwhat will I dowhen you are fallen Where will I sleepHow will I rideWhat will I hunt Where can I gowithout my mountall eager and quickHow will I…
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“God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children” [by Yehuda Amichai]
God has Pity on Kindergarten Children God has pity on kindergarten children. He has less pity on school childrenAnd on grownups he has no pity at all, he leaves them alone, and sometimes they…
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Wyeth Thomas: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_________________________________________________________ The Heir of All Knowing Is Forgetting I once dreamt that God was…
