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Jane Yeh: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________________ Self-Portrait as Psychology after two paintings by Soheila Sokhanvari The straps on my shoes make an X across…
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Name that line!
"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.” Name the author and the book:…
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“Smoking in Heaven” [by Robert Hass]
Watching young poets in the early eveningSmoking on the terrace outside the poetry reading,I wondered if there would be a smoking terraceIn heaven. I have a friend, dead now,A Catholic who was unimpressed by…
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What’s Your Line?
What's your line? 1)" When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions." 2) “Th' unwieldy elephant, to make them mirth, us'd all his might, and wreathed His lithe proboscis." 3) ”My imagination is…
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Hail to thee, Tony Towle, Gemini gem [by David Lehman]
Did you know that Pessoa means person in Portuguese?It’s a secret we share, Tony Towle and I,because he was born on June 13,as were Yeats and Pessoa, an esoteric duo, Gemini at its finest,and…
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The New York School Diaspora (New Series) Part Six: Brooke Harries [by Angela Ball]
New Confusion after Adam Clay This morning I experienced optimismreading assertive sentences & powerfulverbs. An hour later in the…
