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Deems Taylor introduces Frank Sinatra on V-Disc “for the men overseas” (1944)
Sinatra at the Stork Club, 1944 "If You Are But a Dream""Sunday, Monday and Always" as "Dick Haymes, Dick Todd and Como." "Why should it get their goat, each time I bend…
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Ann Pedone: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_______________________________________________________ The Third Poem 1 A month after I quit grad school, I got a birth…
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“Shaking Martinis” [from John O’Hara’s “Butterfield 8”]
<<< "Tell Mrs. Liggett what you told me about shaking Martinis," said Nancy. "Oh. yes," said Farley. "You know, like everyone else, I suppose, I've been going for years on the theory that a…
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Marvelous Poets: Dante. . and more on Marvell [by David Lehman]
There is something cold and terrifying about Dante. Of the three books composing his "Divine Comedy," the most compelling has always been the "Inferno," which Dante envisioned in painstaking detail down to the last…
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From theater to performance: “Waiting for Godot” in Ivana Muller’s “Slowly, slowly … Until the sun comes up” [by Tracy Danison]
*Peter Woodthorpe asked Beckett one day what “Waiting for Godot” was really about: 'It's all symbiosis, Peter, it's symbiosis,' he said. Woodthorpe played Estragon in the first British production. - Wikipedia. Photo © Atelier de Paris…
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“Transit of Venus” by Marty Hiatt [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
Marty Hiatt is a Berlin based poet and translator who runs the intrepid Baulk Press. Originally from Melbourne, Hiatt’s work keeps alive the correspondence between the experiments in French poetry of the late 19th…
