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“We just do what we have to do.” When tedious work is pleasurable [by Stacey Lehman]
Face masks, ready to be washed before inserting ties. This was supposed to be the season of sewing my summer wardrobe. I'd picked the patterns and purchased the fabric to make breezy cotton dresses,…
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On Lawrence Fixel’s “Flight Patterns” [by Peter Johnson]
In the history of the American prose poem from 1965 onward, I would argue that one writer and one collection stands above the others. The writer is Lawrence Fixel, and the collection is Truth, War, and the Dream-Game: Selected Prose…
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“Two Portraits of the Poet” [by Ricky Mujica]
Paintings c 2020 Ricky Mujica.Click here for more information: https://www.artsy.net/artwork/ricky-mujica-poet-david-lehman
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“Encore” [by Laurance Wieder]
Thank you. I love To sing at first light, Pluck a gut string In the watches of the night: A little song, with rocks And sea, and sky, without Confusion of the parts. …
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Sergey Yursky – The Seasons [by Lera Auerbach]
During the time of the pandemic, I am thinking of people that have inspired me and my work. On March 16 Sergey Yursky would have celebrated his 85th birthday. He died last year.…
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“For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground / And tell sad stories of the death of kings. . .”
No matter where; of comfort no man speak:Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;Make dust our paper and with rainy eyesWrite sorrow on the bosom of the earth,Let's choose executors and talk of…
