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Introducing Thomas Moody, Australian Bureau Chief
This week we welcome Thomas Moody as chief of our bureau in Australia. Thomas's poetry and prose have appeared in The American Journal of Poetry, The Los Angeles Review, Hanging Loose, Lindsay Magazine and elsewhere. He is rarely…
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An Introduction to Toby Fitch: & ici an aussi trysting the rules (Part 1) [by Thomas Moody]
“Without paranoia, there’s nothing. My knowledge of homeland trivia is nothing if not chaotic, historically inaccurate…" Toby Fitch works in the great tradition of Australian (post-/modernist) poetry that takes play seriously…
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A poem from The Awl by Matthew Zapruder [posted by Mark Bibbins]
I love the way this poem captures the sad, sweet, isolated longing of adolescence. The tension created by the interplay of short lines and sneakily unruly syntax seems to mirror the experience of tentatively…
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David Trinidad: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
David Trinidad and his mother Joyce, graduation from junior high school, 1968. _______________________________________________________________________________ Sonnet The day she died, my mother divided up her jewelry, placed each piece in Dixie cups (on which my father…
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“On This Very Street in Belgrade” [by Charles Simic, born today]
On This Very Street in Belgrade Your mother carried youOut of the smoking ruins of a buildingAnd set you down on this sidewalkLike a doll bundled in burnt rags,Where you now stood years laterTalking…
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Sweet Tooth [by Lera Auerbach]
Ink on Paper by Lera Auerbach I walkedaround the housein searchof chocolate.(There must besome chocolatesomewhere, right?) No, I don’t thinkit’s a sweet toothcraving,I just havean excessof dissonancestoday. Chocolate makesdissonancesresolve. (Or it doesn’t.) Regardless,somehow,you feelbetter.…
