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David Lehman reveals all about his “Astrological Profiles”
Astrological Profiles: a Genre Back in 2008, when the blog of the Best American Poetry was new, and the Internet itself still seemed a novelty, the editors of the blog – quickly getting used…
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Two Poems: “Back from Vacation” and “Ex-Basketball Player” [by John Updike]
Back from Vacation 'Back from vacation', the barber announces,or the postman, or the girl at the drugstore, now tan.They are amazed to find the workaday worldstill in place, their absence having slipped no…
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Quel cirque! Contemporary European circus, the body, trauma, fate, explained [By Tracy Danison]
“Bestiaire/Vestiaire” by Antoine Linsale. Photo © Christophe Raynaud de Lage Earlier in the month, I went to see circus-act finalists and winners of this year’s Circusnext selection process. Circusnext is a Europe-wide organization that…
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From “Can Literacy Be Saved?” [by M . D. Aeschliman]
<< The central belief in “moral imagination” that inspired Burke, Dickens, Matthew Arnold, and Anglo-American humanistic educators such as Irving Babbitt, John Erskine (“the moral obligation to be intelligent”), F. R. Leavis [pictured left],…
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A Review of Nin Andrews’ Son of a Bird [by Dante Di Stefano]
Son of a BirdNin AndrewsEtruscan Press, 2025 A little more than a year ago, Nin Andrews asked me to write a blurb for her new book. This is what I wrote: Son of a…
