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The New York School Diaspora (Part Fifty-Two): Matthew Zapruder [by Angela Ball]
Poem for a Suicide The yellow flowers on the gravemake an arch, they lie on a black stone that lies on the groundlike a black door that will always remain closed down into the…
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“Birthdays” [by Tony Towle]
Birthdays I wonder if Fernando Pessoa when he wrote to W.B. Yeats for advice about establishing a national poetry for Portugal realized that they had the same birthday — and if he had…
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“Birthdays” [by Tony Towle]
Birthdays I wonder if Fernando Pessoa when he wrote to W.B. Yeats for advice about establishing a national poetry for Portugal realized that they had the same birthday — and if he had…
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The Streak, The Clock and Mr. Met [by Greg Pattenaude]
The view from the stands. Citi Field on June 1, 2023 On Thursday June 1, I made my annual visit to Citi Field to see the Mets take on the Phillies. It was a…
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The Streak, The Clock and Mr. Met [by Greg Pattenaude]
The view from the stands. Citi Field on June 1, 2023 On Thursday June 1, I made my annual visit to Citi Field to see the Mets take on the Phillies. It was a…
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Ben Hogan Wins US Open (June 11, 2015)
On this day in 1950, Ben Hogan won the United States Open in a three-way playoff. What made it almost miraculous was that Hogan had suffered multiple injuries sixteen months earlier when a Greyhound…
