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  • Dispatch From A Distance – Roads And Seeds, A Trace [by Cara Benson]

    October 7, 2020

    “There is a rhetoric to walking.” – Michel de Certeau Most everyone I know right now is alternating between sheer terror over politics (I’ll leave it at that) and a desperate search for respite…

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  • Met Percent: Week Twenty-Four [by Alec Bernstein]

    October 6, 2020

    Nize Baby! Top: Épinette des Vosges, Amant Constant Lambert, late 19th c., not on view.Bottom: Film credits, The Third Man, 1949; Album Cover, Soothing Sounds for Baby, 1962. An épinettier (a player of the…

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  • “A War in Tawara” [by Paul Hoover]

    October 6, 2020

    A War in Tawara Add “A,”A nut for a jar of tuna,A Santa at NASA. Borrow or rob,Boston did not sob.But sad Eva saved a stub. Cigar? Toss it in a can. It is…

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  • “Psalm” [by Stanley Moss]

    October 5, 2020

    God of paper and writing, God of first and last drafts,God of dislikes, god of everyday occasions—He is not my servant, does not work for tips.Under the dome of the roman Pantheon,God in three…

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  • Patricia Spears Jones: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    October 4, 2020

                            __________________________________________________________________________________ If I Were Rita Hayworth   I would hear Spanish first. My father would teach me how to shimmer. My mother…

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  • “Drunken Winter” [by Joseph Ceravolo]

    October 2, 2020

    Oak oak!     like like it then       cold some wild paddle so sky then; flea you say “geese geese" the boy June of winter of again Oak sky From The Collected Poems of Joseph…

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