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The Dayenu Cohort with Yehoshua November
. . .this year Yetzirah has a new offering for you. After successfully trying our first offsite workshop at the conference last year, 2025 will mark the official introduction of our inaugural Dayenu Cohort,…
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“Doubting the Doubts” [in honor of Jasper Johns; by David Shapiro]
David Shapiro wishes Jasper Johns a happy birthday (May 15)! Doubting the Doubts A map dropped from my handsAnd a voice cried, From now onYou will proceed in darkness.Alas, he laughed, that is true.…
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The Night Sinatra Died [by David Lehman]
Sinatra, snapping out of a haze, noticed me sitting across from him “Who the fuck are you?” Just another fan, I said, on the day he died I made anagrams out of his name…
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Jorie Graham on prose poems
It’s not just content out of context that creates the character of many of the poems in An Introduction to the Prose Poem. Jorie Graham gets further into this idea in her introduction to The Best American Poetry,…
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Belle of Amherst [by Mitch Sisskind]
1. Put aside the twaddle about herForced upon us in ten thousandBooks and other tedious varieties.Nights in green eyeshadow shePanther-like prowled Amherst'sBack alleys her brain abuzz withWebster's definition of VOLCANOAs a hole or slit…
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“Before the revolution, man oppressed man. After, it was the other way around.”
<< The ferocity and imbecility of an autocratic rule rejecting all legality and in fact basing itself upon complete moral anarchism provokes the no less imbecile and atrocious answer of a purely Utopian…
