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Tales of the Eighties: A Moment with Mal Waldron [by Alan Ziegler]
August 16 would be Mal Waldron's 97th birthday (he died in 2002). I spent a moment with him in 1983. “Look,” I say, pointing to a sign in a Greenwich Village club window,…
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“Woodstock ’69” [by George Green]
The fabled festival began on August 15, 1969. Here is a link George Green's poem "Woodstock '69" on E-Verse Radio: https://www.everseradio.com/woodstock-69-by-george-green/?_thumbnail_id=35257 Woodstock '69 On the occasion of the 50th anniversary Friday Anne chauffeured us in…
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Toi Derricotte: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
Toi Derricotte. Photo by Ted Rosenberg __________________________________________________________________ Lauds Good morning, fat chair. Your frame…
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Kenward Elmslie, 1929-2022 — Poet, Lyricist, Publisher
What I want to know is:When I'm dead and gone.Who'll prop me up in the dawn? — Kenward Elmslie Born on April 27, 1929, in New York City into a distinguished family—his grandfather was…
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Alfred Hitchcock’s Fate Was In His Stars [by David Lehman]
At 3:15 in the morning, in London, England, one hundred and twenty-something years ago today, the great film director Alfred Hitchcock was born, a solid Leo with a macabre imagination (moon in Scorpio). When…
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Dante, Near and Far [by Robert P. Baird]
There is much strange in La Vita Nuova, the libello or “little book” that Dante composed fifteen or so years before starting in on the Divine Comedy. Take, for starters, the form of the…
