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An Introduction to Toby Fitch: & ici an aussi trysting the rules (Part 2) [by Thomas Moody]
Where Only the Sky had Hung Before (Vagabond Press, 2019) The two poems I’d like to introduce this week are from Toby Fitch’s fifth collection Where Only the Sky had Hung Before,…
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Why do the English like to live in ancient Greece? [by Virginia Woolf]
<<< It is the climate [in England] that is impossible. If we try to think of Sophocles here, we must annihilate the smoke and the damp and the thick wet mists. We must…
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The New York School Diaspora: Part Two, Julia Johnson [by Angela Ball]
Failure I’m standing at the stove cooking pancakeswhen in walks a goat.The goat is black and white and gives mea look over the bridge of his nose that I recognize as a look of…
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Ida Lupino, the First Lady of Noir [by David Lehman]
Ida Lupino in 1953's The Bigamist, which she directed as well as starred in (Everett Collection) At a time when female directors were few, Ida Lupino directed several important, unorthodox films. The Bigamist (1953), which she directed…
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“There’s always someone who says that poetry is dead” [by Milan Dezinsky]
From Prague a reader sends us this link to an article by Milan Dezinsky titled "There's always someone who says that poetry is dead," reproducing an interview the author did with David Lehman in…
