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Pearl Harbor according to “The Godfather”
"Say, what do you think of the nerve of them Japs?" Sonny asks. "Dropping bombs on our own backyard on Pop's birthday here." To which Fredo, who didn't go to college to get stupid,…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: DECEMBER 7, 2022
As the year draws to an end, I’m thinking of other kinds of endings. Victoria Redel's “Ode to Menopause” was first published in SWWIM on November 7, 2022. And Lucille Clifton’s poem “to my…
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William Makepeace Thackeray: Pendennis [by Lewis Saul]
Fifty years ago, your Editor, a few friends and I were drinking strong black coffee at a nice little café in the Montparnasse district of Paris. I was studying music composition and — frankly…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Forty): Dara Wier [by Angela Ball]
95% of Thoroughbred Horses Descend from Eclipse I’m walking slowly the way trees walk. I’m letting my branches slip over steaming coastline. My bucket, my stick, my good boots. My eyelids shoot out…
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Benjamin Garcia: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________ Le Daría Mis Pulmones Toward the end, she could only lift a cup of…
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A Question from Emily Dickinson [by David Lehman]
I have a great fondness for two-line poems. Robert Frost's poem "The Span of Life" is a perfect couplet, enacting the life of a dog as if in a diptych representing youth and old…
