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The “How To” of Eros [by Catherine Bowman]
Instructions. Audre Lorde in her 1978 essay “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power” writes “This is one reason why the erotic is so feared, and so often relegated to the bedroom alone,…
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“Sheltering at Home” [by John Koethe]
SHELTERING AT HOME But sometimes standing still is also life. John Ashbery I hate it—but then homeWas always a place to depart fromOr come back to, not a state of being in…
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Failing at Love 2.0 [by Nin Andrews]
I love this Sappho poem of pure jealousy. I love the “kindled the flesh along my arms/ and smothered me in its smoke-blind rush.” I’m just realizing that many of my favorite poems celebrate…
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“When Sinatra Campaigned for FDR” [by David Lehman]
<<<When Sinatra met Humphrey Bogart, the star of Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon said that he’d heard Sinatra knew how to make women faint. “Make me faint,” Bogart said. Sinatra’s faint-inducing ability was also on the agenda…
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“Beyond the Sea” (1959 & 1973): Bobby Darin’s great nostalgia trip
No more sailin'. . . Happy birthday, Bobby (May 14, 1969 — December 20, 1973). He gave an amazing nine-minute performance of "Beyond the Sea" in 1973, the year he died. (There's a full-length…
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Squibs 419-421 [by Alan Ziegler]
419: I walk the late afternoon streets. A cop enters a coffee shop to get something to-go, leaving his partner outside. The partner paces, lonely, wondering what’s taking so long. The faint moon is lonely…
