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“No, the System Did Not Work For Me” [by Jill Jones]
Jill Jones was born in Sydney and has lived in Adelaide since 2008. Her latest book is Acrobat Music: New and Selected Poems, published in 2023. Other recent books include Wild Curious Air, winner…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: May 31, 2023
Bread and Circus by Airea D. Matthews was published yesterday by Scribner. This inventive, searing, and political treatise-in-poetry uses erasure techniques to transform texts by Adam Smith (author of The Wealth of Nations) and Guy…
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Is the New SAT the Adolescent Equivalent of the Tax Code? [by Samuel Johnson]
They're reforming the SATs again, which means the columnists are duking it out about the efficacy of standardized testing, the merits of the venerable scoring sytem in which 800 aces the test, and the…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Fifty-One): Anselm Berrigan [by Angela Ball]
What the Streets Look Like Mom: the sweet rottedsummer stench stilltaps the nasal cavityinside breezes severaltimes per block. I havea greater empathy forpigeons after two monthsat work in the unnatural country, & find itinstinctively…
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Jacob Collier [by Lewis Saul]
On August 2 1994, in North London, Suzie Collier — a violinist, conductor, and professor at the Royal Academy of Music — gave birth to a boy, Jacob. To compare this genius of the…
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“To World War Two” [by Kenneth Koch]
To World War Two Early on you introduced me to young women in barsYou were large, and with a large handYou presented them in different cities,Made me in San Luis Obispo, drunkOn French seventy-fives, in…
