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30th Anniversary of the Death of Tim Dlugos [by Terence Winch]
It was thirty years ago today that Tim Dlugos died at age forty of AIDS. Tim was a poet of enormous talent and creative energy. He was beloved by many, myself included. His warmth,…
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Rogues’ Gallery [by David Lehman]
<<<There’s a special onus on the villains in crime dramas. They have to be wicked, but they also have to make that wickedness interesting. Whether by being singular in some way, or by virtue…
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Ashbery on Paris (and Ellsworth Kelly)
from Ellsworth Kelly, Plant Drawings (Matthew Marks Gallery, 1992), Essay by John Ashbery. Unpaginated. About the life of an American expatriate in Paris: "I suspect that in this burgeoning period of his art…
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On Translating Baudelaire’s Prose Poems for “The Paris Review”
In Baudelaire’s “La fausse monnaie,” which I have rendered as “Fake Money,” the poet is outraged when his companion gives a counterfeit coin to a beggar. Translating the poem, I aimed for a coherent…
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“No Alphabet” [by Joanne Dominique Dwyer]
If not for the lust of women, there would be no alphabet.Save for the breaking of traffic rules, there would beno Cubism; no fractured light scrutinized from subwaysor kaleidoscopes in the tool belts of…
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Meg Kearney: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
photo by Gabriel Parker ______________________________________________________________________ George Says Stop Writing About Yourself (New York, December 2001) This one’s for George,…
