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“The Terrifying Poetry of Ping-Pong” [by Mitch Sisskind]
No Olympic sport is more maddening than ping-pong (I refuse to call it “table tennis.”) The way the ball will just nick the corner of the table can drive anyone mad — especially poets,…
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from “Julius Jaffe: The Analects” (3) (by Mitch Sisskind)
EMUNAHWhen Herman Fishman asked Julius Jaffeto discourse on emunah, Julius Jaffe’s mouth twisted into a rictus as if he were trying to lifta huge weight. Finally Julius Jaffe said, "Fools and sillypeople who refer…
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On Drinking Wine and Working Out: The Group Effect [by Michael Fontaine]
The Bamberg Girl in Poznan, Poland, carries two full buckets of wine on a pole across her shoulders. Talk about a workout! Her family emigrated from the winelands of Bavaria, near Obsopoeus' neck of…
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“Laundry” [by Susan Gunter]
Susan E. Gunter is a professor, Henry James scholar, poet, and watercolor artist. She began painting eight years ago, working from her own photographs and using just three colors: Windsor blue, alizarin crimson, and…
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What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger [by Michael Fontaine]
That's Diogenes up above, the Greek philosopher who famously lived in a wine barrel. This post is #4 in the series on How to Drink. Click here for parts one, two, and three. Fair…
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Petitioning the Poetry Foundation
A petition making the rounds urges the Poetry Foundation to allocate five million dollars to support poets, editors, "literary workers," independent bookstores, small presses and other persons and institutions that are suffering because of…
