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Abecedarius for the 21st Century by [Stacey Harwood-Lehman]
ZealousYoungXenophobesWriteVerse. UselessThreats. ShoutedRecriminations. QuestionablePractices. OdiousNefariousMasqueradingLiars. Kiss-assJuristsInventHistory. GenerationsFaulted. ExpertDeniersClearlyBenefit. Again. — 10/2001
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“Hotel” [by Guillaume Apollinaire; trans. David Lehman]
My room’s the shape of a cage The sun crooks his arm through the bars But I, who smoke to make a mirage, Let the flame of day light my cigar I don’t want…
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Drinking With Grad Students [by James Cummins]
You have to let these poets, half your age, have every way with you they hanker for– like stuff you in a bamboo tiger cage, or stomp your eyeballs on the barroom floor. The…
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(Big) Squib 354: My Visit with Louis Abolafia [by Alan Ziegler]
December 1968 My grandmother and her sister live in a rent-controlled walk-up on East Fourth Street between First and Second. The Hells Angels are headquartered around the block. Through the school playground across the…
