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Anonymous Poet [by Stanley Moss]
Sometimes I would see her with her loverswalking through the Village, the windstrapped about her ankles.Simply being, she foughtagainst the enemies of love and poetrylike Achilles in wrath.Her tongue was not a lake,but it…
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A Monday Morning Cartoon [by Nin Andrews]https://www.typepad.com/site/blogs/6a00e54fe4158b883300e54ff804ab8834/post/compose
from the archive; first posted March 25, 2013
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“Odd Man Out”: the Belfast Noir [by David Lehman]
<<<British director Carol Reed turned out three masterpieces in the late 1940s. With an exemplary performance from Ralph Richardson, The Fallen Idol (1948) does justice to Graham Greene’s brilliant story “The Basement Room.” The Third Man (1949),…
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“The Ambivalence of Being in Glück’s ‘The Triumph of Achilles’” [by Caroline Malone]
Opening the box. Opening the book. Opening the self. What often initially emerges from opening is just what Pandora unwittingly released into the world: fear, ignorance, jealousy, and hatred. And just as often, agency…
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Kudos to Nobel Laureate Louise Glück
Kudos to the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, Louise Glück, a wonderful poet whose work has appeared in many editions of The Best American Poetry. She was the guest editor of…
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Two Poems by Aaron Fagan
King and Trumpet One night I was drunk at the Heartland,And, apparently, I spoke to Dan, the bartender,Because his roommate called the next night to say,“My roommate, Dan, was your bartender last night.I hope…
