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“Homage” [by Tony Towle]
It was not the cup of hypnoerotic teabut the calculation in her memoirsthat stirred the secret possumhiding in the crowdto dream of thermal compatibility. As I was explicating these linesto an immense golden hawk,in…
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Kenzie Allen Draws an Ace [by Ace Boggess]
Ace Boggess launches this, the first of five mini-reviews, with this prefatory note: <<When David Lehman asked me to do a handful of mini-reviews of poems that have stuck with me, I realized that…
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In Monet’s Dining Room: Remembering Milton Glaser (1929-2020) [by Rozanne Gold]
"Milton’s designs were sumptuous, color-drenched, vivid, expressive and…mouthwatering." The art world, to be sure, is mourning the loss of one its greatest graphic designers and typography innovators of all time. Milton Glaser’s evocative…
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Pick of the Week (from “Urban Renewal: xxvi. Washington Square”) [by Major Jackson]
When all that cautions the eyes toward the imminentslide of autumn to arctic winds, the canopy of English elmand sycamore leaves like colored coins fall and widena hole letting more light spill in, heaven’s…
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Odd Man Out: “the best thing James Mason has ever done, and the best film he’s ever been in”
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), the…
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“The Elevated Train” [by Edward Hirsch]
Yesterday I climbed the stairs and took the “L” to 1965 where I was stuck in the heart of downtown Chicago waiting for my grandmother to…
