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The Cat of Montserrat [by Lera Auerbach]
My memory: meeting a Montserrat cat –she is sitting beneath Pablo Casals’ sculpture –the true owner of his bronze cellowith whiskers sniffing mountain air.It is Fall. It’s sunny, but the air is already keeping…
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Road to Damascus [by Mitch Sisskind]
He called them baby, honey, sweetie,Darling and things of that nature;He mastered the lost art of flattery;He said you're looking good tonight;He said let's get the show on the road;Weekends he whisked them off…
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Letter from London (Ten Years On) [by David Lehman]
It was spring in November, raining but once in the course of five days and that a mild midnight sprinkle, and one day the temperature climbed almost to the sixties, and you needed only…
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The Spymaster as Vacuum-Cleaner Salesman [by DL]
<<< And the sad man is cock of all his jests. — George Herbert >>> Epigraph to Graham Greene's novel Our Man in Havana (1958). The protagonist — an English widower living in pre-Castro Cuba —…
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“Why I Like You” by John Jenkins [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
John Jenkins is often associated with the "Generation of 68", a loose collection of poets who began publishing towards the end of the 1960s and, in the words of John Tranter, "rose to public…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Eighteen): Jennifer Michael Hecht [by Angela Ball]
September Tonight there must be people who are getting what they want.I let my oars fall into the water.Good for them. Good for them, getting what they want. The night is so still that…
