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Amy Dougher-Solórzano: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
______________________________________________________ Still Life with Taylor Ham Sandwich Anything can be an altar. I skip Easter mass to sit by the window in my old bedroom. (The walls are…
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“April 19” [by David Lehman]
On this day in 1996, I wrote: We have too much exhibitionismand not enough voyeurismin poetry we have plenty of bassand not enough treble, more amberbeer than the frat boys can drink butless…
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“The Overture”: New “Next Line, Please” Prompts [by David Lehman]
On April Fool’s Day, which marks the opening of both “the cruelest month” (T. S. Eliot) and, since 1996, National Poetry Month, I reviewed the previous week’s Next Line, Please entries with some…
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Unrest by Emily Fragos [by Nin Andrews]
Every now and then, I come across a quiet little poem that sticks in my head, like "Unrest" by Emily Fragos. Maybe because I worked at the local SPCA when I was a girl,…
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“As Above So Below”: Mark Leckey Does a Good Job [By Tracy Danison]
“As Above So Below”, installation by Mark Leckey, Lafayette Anticipations. Photo © Aurélien Mole, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris These days, as, each morning, a body must crouch up and frog run from the Huey Combat…
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Two Tragedies in Life [by Walter Carey]
What do it mean? Trans studies, ecocriticism, posthumanism, queer, and postcolonial theory, this class contends with how bodies of flesh and bodies of knowledge change over time. Bodies of Transformation takes a historiographic approach…
