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“Perfidia”: the song (sung by Helen Forrest & by Linda Ronstadt) and the poem
Perfidia You don’t know who these people are, or whatThey’ll do to you if you’re caught, but you can’tBack out now: it seems you agreed to carryA briefcase into Germany, and here you are,Glass…
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When Bad Lines Happen to Good Poems [by Laurence Goldstein]
If you were empowered by the gods to travel back into the canon of poetry in English and change or delete one line, which would it be? On occasions, sometimes years apart, I’ve put this query…
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Billy Marshall Stoneking [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
Billy Marshall Stoneking was born in Florida and grew up on military bases across the US. At the age of twenty-five, he emigrated to Australia with a BA and a postgrad in Education from…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Six): The News in Sports [by Angela Ball]
Mississippi State’s Football Coach Ponders the Fake People in the Stands –for and after Mike Leach I have to be honest. I haven’t really gottenthe cut-out people in the stands,the cardboard torsospretending to be…
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“112th Street” [by James Longenbach]
112th Street If only once, if ever you have the chance,You should climb a volcano. The hermitage at basecamp, the glasses of brandy—That’s the past. Who wants to think about the past? You want to push…
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“Summer Afternoon” [by David Shapiro]
For DCLehman just feeling happy James’s words you love Today was unbear-ably beautiful like abear walking thru school! Today was amaz-ingly cool and calm like fishrushing to the knife! today the sun hitthe bricks…
