-
The Halloween Poet: On Keats’s Birthday [by David Lehman]
Poor Keats. A Scorpio with Virgo rising and, just to clinch the deal, his moon in Gemini. This is the equivalent of being dealt the Fool, the Lovers (inverted), and the Tower as…
-
It was 90 years ago today. . .
Ninety years ago, the stock market crashed. It was on the 29th of October, a Tuesday, as it is this year. A little known fact is that the poet, professor and scholar John Hollander…
-
Met Percent: Week Nine [by Alec Bernstein]
In Situ (Ex Situ) (Left) Asmat Tribe, New Guinea. (Right) Bis (funerary) Poles, Asmat peoples, 1960, gallery 354 (Nelson Rockefeller Collection). The question that surfaced, after 3 trips to the Africa, Oceania, and the Americas…
-
Preface to Lyrical Ballads [by Mitch Sisskind]
Consider the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin, yet I say unto you that even Solomon in his glory was not arrayed as one of these. — Matthew 6:28-29…
-
How Noir Was My Valley: Have You Written a Noir Poem? [David Lehman asks Suzanne Lummis]
Lehman: Have you written a noir poem? Lummis: Here's one. Femme Fatale It’s a crime story she’s in:betrayal and larceny, few clues.Someone stole what she lived for,made off like a thief in the nightor…
-
What Picasso Saw (1940) [by David Lehman]
after fifty-nine yearshe sawthe womanwith two faces there was no such thing as an ex-Catholic or an ex-Spaniardliving in Francefirst Paris with Maxthen back to Madridan old guitarist what can you dowith blue, blindnessand…
