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Sonnet XLV: Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night [by Samuel Daniel]
XLV Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born: Relieve my languish, and restore the light, With dark forgetting of my cares, return; And let the…
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“Negative Capability” [By David Lehman]
"Negative Capability" from THE COMMON May 5, 2025 Issue 29 Poetry, Poetry By DAVID LEHMAN Imagine the money the Keats estate would have madeif they could have copyrighted “negative capability” and charged permission fees for its use,…
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Cardinal Zen [by Beatrice Leader]
Cardinal Zen took me under his wing.Chicago-born Leo XIV beat the oddsfourteen to one in Vegas defeatingthe Italian candidate, the hot favorite,but remember the old conclave saw"who enters as pope exits as cardinal." As…
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Rae Armantrout: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
______________________________________________________ The Craft Talk So that the best thing you could do, it seemed, was climb inside the machine that was language and feel what it wanted or was capable of doing at…
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The Cloisters
The Cloisters museum in Fort Trryon Park is where I spent many afternoons growing up in Washington Heights and Inwood. — DL
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Come one, come all: Kenneth Koch’s centennial, Saturday May 17 at Flow Chart Foundation (Hudson, NY)
organized by Jordan Davis, Justin Jamail, Eric Longo and the Flow Chart Foundation: Kenneth Koch Centennial Gathering SCHEDULE (subject to change) for 5/ 17 / 25 [10am—bagels & coffee] 11am-11:15am — Welcome by…
