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Under Fire [by Terence Winch]
Under Fire Stop looking at me. I didn’t do anythingwrong. I don’t know the words to the song.That’s all. I wandered around the mallwith my broken watch. I had all my receipts.But no one…
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slippage (un)fixed by Bridget Gilmartin [introduced by Thomas Moody]
Brigit Gilmartin achieves a lot within sixteen short lines. “Louis Buvelot is painting” is the kind of opening you’d expect from a Frank O’Hara poem: both casual and direct, and there is an easy…
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Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom) [with Perry Como and the Ray Charles Singers, 1956]
This was high on the charts when I was eight and riding a bicycle to impress a little girl. I am still fond of the song. If you're hearing Emmanuel Chabrier's España (1883)you're not…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Thirty-Two): Diana Goetsch [by Angela Ball]
YOU COULD I stood in the middle of my kitchen eating butter. It was 11 a.m. on an overcast morningI was wearing—well, let’s not worry about what I was wearing. I don’t make a…
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When Life followed Art, which returned the compliment
Life magazine, August 8, 1949. "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The artIcle that changed the art world. Merely by asking the question, Life made it a self-fulfilling…
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The Definition of Gardening [poem by James Tate]
So many people in my various social media feeds are posting pictures of their gardens these days. I'm reminded of this poem, by James Tate, from his wonderful book Shroud of the Gnome. sdl…
