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  • English Flavors by Laure-Anne Bosselaar [by Nin Andrews]

    March 5, 2021

                  I love to lick English the way I licked the hard round licorice sticks the Belgian nuns gave me for six good conduct points on Sundays after mass.              Love it when…

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  • Four Poems [by Mitch Sisskind]

    March 5, 2021

    The Great Tweed   He was called the Great Tweed because A Tweed was a perfectly attired student And he was great at it so he was called The Great Tweed. Once in a…

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  • Berio’s “Sinfonia” [by Lewis Saul]

    March 5, 2021

    One day during my short stint at Juilliard, the composer Milton Babbitt came as a guest lecturer in one of my composition classes. Mr. Babbitt gave us a nice lecture on 20th century music…

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  • Dislocated in Time [by Lera Auerbach]

    March 5, 2021

    Photo by Lera Auerbach   (1) The problem with the future is that it is unforeseeable –the great unknown is full of opportunities for dreadful disasters. Their multitudes are inexhaustible. The stars are the…

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  • An Interview with Alan Ziegler [by Aspen Matis]

    March 4, 2021

    Alan Ziegler's books include Love At First Sight: An Alan Ziegler Reader; The Swan Song of Vaudeville: Tales and Takes, The Green Grass of Flatbush, So Much To Do, The Writing Workshop, Volumes I and II, and The Writing Workshop Note Book. He is the editor…

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  • Squibs 446-452 [by Alan Ziegler]

    March 3, 2021

      446: Cabondating: Determining when a movie or TV show was recorded by the fare on the taxi door.   447: Some places my poems visited in the 70s and 80s: Ironwood, Mulberry, Granite, Syncline, Stepping…

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