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Don’t Bury the Lede [by Walter Carey]
In the current Atlantic,the time-waster who got the coveted assignmentto write about "The Waste Land"on the poem's one hundreth birthdaybegins with these three questions:"Why is April the cruellest month?Why did the chicken cross the road?Why…
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On Seeing the Nutcracker Suite as an Adult [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]
Several years ago, a colleague who was leaving NYC for L.A., asked me what should be on her “bucket list” of things to do before heading west. “See a performance of the New York…
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Paul Tran: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________________________________ Lipstick Elegy I climb down to the beach facing the Pacific. Torrents of rain shirr the sand. On the…
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Sterling Hayden as Johnny Clay in Kubrick’s “The Killing” [by John Harbourne]
For more of John Harbourne's pioctures, visit this site:johnharbourneartist.comcopyright (c) 2022 by John Harbourne Epitaph for a Genre: On Kubrick's "The Killing" [by David Lehman] Adapted by Stanley Kubrick and Jim Thompson from the…
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“Disappearance—My Euridyce” [by Lynn Emanuel]
Disappearance—My Euridyce 1967, New York City, East River From Jackson Pollock, I had learned to hateBotticelli’s “The Birth of Venus”– Those white, white sheets–thrown back covers of the breakers’ unmade bed, and Venusuncombed,…
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“Shanked on the Red Bed” [by Susan Wheeler]
Shanked on the Red Bed The perch was on the roof, and the puck was in the air.The diffident were driving, and the daunted didn't care.When I came out to search for you the…
