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Poets’ Jeopardy [by Mindy Aloff]
Prima ballerina Tanaquil Le Clercq, who inspired Frank O'Hara's "Ode to Tanaquil Le Clercq," pictured here with Corrado Cagli, Vittorio Rieti, and George Balanchine, (photo © Irving Penn). Special Edition: Poetry and the Dance…
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“A Woe of Ecstasy” [by Emily Dickinson]
"A woe of ecstasy" — Emily Dickinson's phrase. Run with it.
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The Arson Prevention Program [by Shanna Compton]
It is exceedingly difficultto come to termswith the facts—someone you loveis redacted The river continuesas though no onewere missing The country moves towardviolet abutments ever adjacentto the idea weonce had of ourselvesredacted You must…
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Inviting a Friend to Supper (by Mitch Sisskind)
Of Wittgenstein here’s all I know and All you need to know, my dear friend: ‘I don’t care what I eat as long as it’s ‘The same thing every day.’ Genau! Thus spake…
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Lewis Saul on Beethoven’s String Quartet in C# Minor
BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van: String Quartet in C# Minor, Op. 131 (1825) It was forty years ago today … No, that can't be right — it just sounded nice! But it was like 39 or so — and…
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Thomas Moody’s “Construction Magnet”
Here are the opening line of Thomas Moody's new poem “Construction Magnet.” The poem has a remarkable epigraph "(For who shall bring him to see what shall be after him? — Ecclesiastes 3:22). Please…
