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“Microbiome” by Andy Jackson [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
Andy Jackson’s Human Looking (Giramondo) won both the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for poetry and the Australian Literature Society’s Gold Medal in 2022. The book’s title possesses a canny doubleness that can inform us…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: JANUARY 4, 2023
Today’s poem is by Anjanette Delgado—a powerhouse of a Miami writer. She has mostly written prose—the novels The Heartbreak Pill and The Clairvoyant of Calle Ocho, with a third novel and a short story collection forthcoming…
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Breslin and Buffett: “To thine own self be true” [by Mitch Sisskind]
I got turned on to Jimmy Breslin when I read his novel Table Money many years ago. Later, I read his biography of Damon Runyon — a real masterpiece in my opinion. I was…
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Karlheinz Stockhausen [by Lewis Saul]
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) would not make many Top Ten Composers of All Time list — but he makes mine! I first encountered his music when I was 15 (1967), and I knew the tingling…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Forty-One): Bob Hicok [by Angela Ball]
Civilization, as I understand it To pee or not to pee sitting or standing is never a question, sitting whenever possible on a toilet in the Pantheon a floor above Marie Curie's body…
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Happy birthday, David Shapiro, author of “January”
David Shapiro wrote: at 8:42pm David, please take the test I left out in the rain.Freud's the name, theory's the game, lying on the couch seems inane,free association is the main, transference too is…
