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A Guide to Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen Minutes [by Witold Gombrowicz]
Who hasn’t wished for a painless way to find out what the big shots of philosophy – the Hegels and Kants, the Nietzsches and Sartres – thought of the human condition? It has never…
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The Will to Live [by David Lehman]
“They say that Schopenhauer [pictured] is pessimistic. That is not saying very much. [His] is a grandiose and tragic vision which, unfortunately, coincides perfectly with reality.” – Witold Gombrowicz, A Guide to Philosophy in…
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Three Restaurant Poems [by Mitch Sisskind]
The Acorn On Oak The hamburgers, giant meatballs Was all they really were but for ONE MILLION DOLLARS you got It just EXACTLY like you wanted it Or I sure as hell did! Oh,…
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An Interview with Laura Cronk [by Aspen Matis]
Laura Cronk is the author of two books of poems, Ghost Hour and Having Been an Accomplice, both from Persea Books. She is the chair of undergraduate writing at The New School in New…
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Poetry on Vinyl: An Interview with Jeff Alessandrelli of Fonograf Editions [by Daniel Nester]
I suspect I know what you’re thinking, dear readers. “Poetry and vinyl records?” you exclaim. “That’s a recipe for commercial disaster!” To this hypothetical remark I would point out that interest in vinyl records…
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Poetry on Vinyl: Ernest Hilbert’s Elegies and Laments [by Daniel Nester]
What would it sound like if a book of poetry had its own musical score, like a film, written specifically to match the poems line for line and word for word? So begins the…
