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“She couldn’t sleep for a week.” Celebrating the Fifty Year Anniversary of the New York City Ballet Stravinsky Festival [by Eden Elieff]
Ed note: This is part one of a two-part series. Watch this space for part two, which will post next week. sdl Lincoln Kirstein (left) and George Balanchine drink a toast to Igor Stravinsky…
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“Mad Men”: The 4:20 Express [by David Lehman]
Think of tonight's episode, the best of the 5th season so far, as the Four Twenty Edition of Mad Men with a bummed out Peggy playing hooky smoking a joint with some horny stranger…
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What Would Kafka Do? [by Stacey Harwood]
On October 21, 1985, The New Yorker published this poem by Raymond Carver: Kafka’s Watch I have a job with a tiny salary of 80 crowns, andan infinite eight to nine hours of work.I devour the time…
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“That grand old Irish / Italian tradition” [by Moira Egan]
One of the great things about being an American poet who happens to live in Rome is the proximity to the American Academy in Rome. In recent years, things have become even better for…
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Three Poems by Carody Culver [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
Carody Culver is a Brisbane based writer, editor and poet whose recent chapbook The Morgue I Think the Deader it Gets (published online here at one of Australia's best homes for poetry, Cordite Poetry…
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My favorite intersection in Inwood [by DL]
with thanks to Joel Weiner & greetings to John Deming and Melinda WilsonIntersection of Seaman and Cumming, Inwood, NYC.