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“Mount Washington Kroger is Out of Bananas”
"Mount Washington Kroger is Out of Bananas” Yes, we have no bananas today, but Cheetos and nacho chips— seven different brands—and instantmashed potatoes complete with sodium acid pyrophosphate, and sodium bisulfite.We have gummi…
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The Fly in the Ointment [by Mitch Sisskind]
People think the Golden Calf looked Like a calf but that is very wrong.(Literal readings of the Bible are a sin.)It looked like whatever you wantedAnd…
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On No Tokens, with Hannah Beresford [by Lauren Hilger]
A Conversation with Poetry Co-Editor Hannah Beresford Lauren Hilger: What is your earliest memory of working with NT poems? Hannah Beresford: My first submission period with NT, I printed all of the…
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Ils ont entendu le vent dans les arbres . . .
Thanks to Jim Cummins for sending this along. Believed to be the only time Johnny Carson sang in public: Thanks, Jim! — sdh
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For “Plume,” Another Feather in the Cap
The new issue of Plume is out. Edited by the admirably imaginative Danny Lawless, issue #129 (May 2022) contains work by D. Nurkse, Tomasz Różyck, Susan Aizenberg, Bill Stratton, Jeffrey Skinner, Cartol Muske-Dukes, Lauren Camp,…
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On Games [by Lauren Hilger]
In writing poetry, I’ve found that occupying three different positions is important: cold editor, kind tutor, and just a writer. In looking at my poems as a cold editor, I’m impartial, ruthless, determined. Cold…
