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Two Prose Poems [by Nin Andrews]
"Yes" and "Never Say Yes" (by Nin Andrews) Yes Orgasms are bad news. In the town where I grew up, orgasms were against the law. No one had an orgasm, not even God. By…
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Hanukkah ca. 1960 [by Lewis Saul]
There I am stage right with older sister Wendy; and Lynn (z'l) and little bro, Alan. It looks like I got some kind of game — but it was Lynn who knew what I…
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Catullus, Sappho, and Jackie DeShannon [by Susan Brind Morrow]
Catullus (above left) is the best translator of Sappho (right), managing to create both a sense of the original and something that stands as an original poem on its own. Catullus was (according…
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“God has Pity on Kindergarten Children” [by Yehuda Amichai]
God has pity on kindergarten children.He has less pity on school childrenAnd on grownups he has no pity at all,he leaves them alone,and sometimes they must crawl on all foursin the burning sandto reach…
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Janet Hamill: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________________________________________________________________ When It Snowed It was almost holy when it snowed waiting to see Santa at Sears for a photo in a plaid coat & mittens the real one was at Macy’s in…
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Merry Christmas! “Little Tree” [poem by e.e. cummings]
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