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An Introduction to Martin Johnston (Part 2) [by Thomas Moody]
Martin Johnston died in June 1990 at the age of forty-two having published three books of poetry: Shadowmass; The Sea-Cucumber; and The Typewriter Considered a Bee-Trap; a novel, Cicada Gambit; and a collection of translations of Greek Poems, Ithaka. His short…
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Berlioz & the music in “The Shining”
From Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique," the music in "The Shining" by Stanley Kubrick:
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Sixteen): Elaine Equi [by Angela Ball]
FOR YEARS, I SUFFERED FROM A STRANGE MELODY I couldn’t knit thistles into sweaters for swans,nor spin straw into gold records. I didn’t have a gingersnap or bluebird to my name. The oven overheard…
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Perils of the Poetry Reading [by Katha Pollitt]
Am I the only person who finds it hard to follow an unfamiliar poem when I hear it read out loud and don’t have the text in front of me? Even when reading to…
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“Take the No Out of Now”: Rozanne Gold in conversation with poet/multi-media artist Gerd Stern
Gerd Stern in front of Contact Is The Only Love, first shown at the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1963 Politics excepted, death and dying have become the meat of current discourse. As…
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Jane Clarke: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_________________________________________________________________________ Blue Cards Winter mornings he was gone before dawn to fairs in Ballyhaunis, Claremorris, Ballinrobe. He came home with muck on…
