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On Gene Kelly [by David Lehman]
Here's an excerpt from "To Dance an Exclamation Point," a "talking pictures" column in The American Scholar: <<<The best stanza of Carl Sandburg’s “Lines Written for Gene Kelly to Dance To” proposes a parallel…
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“Retronym time” from “Time Pieces” [by Rachel Wetzsteon, 1967-2009]
from "Time Pieces" by Rachel Wetzsteon Cheering: it was done.But soon the Great War would berenamed World War One. "Time Pieces," a brilliant sequence of haikus, firstappeared in The New Criterion and was selected by Kevin…
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Bob Guccione [by Mitch Sisskind]
Oh, don’t mind me. I come from a time When new issues of Playboy magazine Sold out in one day, when the windows Of coffee shops on Broadway were piled High with Playboys…
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Rachid Ouramdane’s national dance theater: making space for imagination [by Paul Tracy Danison]
A couple of Johanna Faye’s Black Sheep dancing at, in, a point of transition – Palais de Chaillot, 18 September 2021 I wonder if our civilization’s habit of building everything as an impossible play…
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An Interview with Rachel Hadas [by Aspen Matis]
Rachel Hadas is the author of more than twenty books of verse and prose, including the acclaimed poetry collections Poems for Camilla, Questions in the Vestibule and, most recently, Love and Dread. Her poems appear…
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Brian Clements Presents a Poem by Morton Marcus
The First Laugh The first laugh was God creating the universe. That guffaw is still exploding in all directions, hollowing out and filling the farthest reaches of space. What could have been so funny?…
