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An Interview with Nin Andrews [by Aspen Matis]
Nin Andrews’ poems have appeared in many literary journals and anthologies including Ploughshares, Agni, The Paris Review, and four editions of Best American Poetry. The author of six chapbooks and six full-length poetry collections, she has…
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“Spring” [by Angela Ball]
My feelings just took a turn for the better,While thinking of white flowers turning into strawberries,Of clover turning into bees, of crowds of wisteriaSwelling and swelling. People often think I have a friendly dog…
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“Jazz” [by Angela Ball]
I’d like to know everythingA jazz artist knows, starting with the song,“Goodbye Pork Pie Hat.” Like to make some songs myself:“Goodbye Rickshaw,”“Goodbye Lemon Drop,”“Goodbye Rendezvous.” Or maybe even blues: If you fall in love…
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Glyn Maxwell: “Deep Sorriness, Atonement Song”
Glyn Maxwellb. 1962 "Deep Sorriness Atonement Song"(for missed appointment, BBC North, Manchester) Ed. note: Just one of the funniest, sorriest, most pitiful apologies ever penned. Only thing is, it's full of allusions, some of…
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Larkin, Uncensored (On Human Bondage, Donald Davie, and Barbara Pym)
Philip Larkin wrote this poem — which he characterized as a "cri du cock" — in 1943, when he was 21: I would give all I possess(money, keep, wallet, personal effects, and articles of…
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“I’m Sorry” [by Stanley Moss]
I’m sorry, exhausted, except for funds.I wrote a check, the date October 18without the year, to Theresa Monrosefor a hundred dollars, I did not writethe amount longhand.My conversation with friendsis something like the way…
