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Why everything is going to be OK. [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, I’m supposed to be cleaning! I was given a specific task: straighten up the kid’s bookshelves for Jessie’s birthday party this weekend. But then my husband, who suggested this task, took the…
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Joanna Fuhrman: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_______________________________________________________ The Poetry Reading The mustached cowboy-hatted thrice-divorced old-man poet famous for sleeping with flaxen-haired (or was it flax-seed eating) quote-unquote…
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“Saturday” [by Mark Ford]
After bursting through the allusion-barrier so dramatically, as related on Thursday [Oct. 16, 2008], there has been no stopping me, and I would like to conclude my very enjoyable stint as your guest-blogger with…
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Yehuda Amichai, From an interview with Lawrence Joseph (1992) and a Poem (“Memorial Day for the War Dead”)
Lawrence Joseph interviewed the Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai for The Paris Review, Spring 1992. Amichai was born in Germany in 1924. With his family he fled from Hitler in 1936, emigrating to Palestine with…
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Crocus & Daffodil welcome you to Clare College
What you see when you approach the gate at Clare College, Cambridge, in March: The vew of the bridge and the old court in the near green future:
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“The Other Sestina” [by Janice Erlbaum]
Janice Erlbaum participated in the group reading we did for "The Best American Erotic Poems" at KGB Bar on March 10. 2008. She read her sestina ("The Temp") from the book, but time constraints…
