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Great Books and the Abyss [by David Lehman]
When education and consumerism merge, students get what they want, and one thing they appartently want is all A’s – as striking students at the New School in New York City demanded in November.…
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Photographer Sarah Meunier does drag [by Tracy Danison]
Corrine works decadence at Cirque Eléctrique, a Paris cabaret. Photo © Sarah Meunier When dancers and mountebanks were banned in the City of Light, while others quailed in their closets or pottered around snazzy…
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John Forbes (Part 1) [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
Last week marked the 25th anniversary of the death of John Forbes at age 47. Ironic, understated, comic and deceptively erudite, Forbes’ poetry represented for many Australian poets, as Ken Bolton writes, “a high-water…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: FEBRUARY 1, 2023
For today’s post I offer two poems written by amazing friends and poets with whom I have joyfully collaborated. These (solo) poems are both called WHEN I WAS STRAIGHT—Maureen’s written first (from Little Ice Age,…
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2AM, and the Rabbinical Students Stand in Their Bathrobes [by Yehoshua November]
2AM, and the Rabbinical Students Stand in Their Bathrobes 2AM, and the rabbinical students stand in their bathrobesat the edge of the yeshiva parking lot, watchingthe practiced motions of muscular firemen disembarkingfrom their engine.…
