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Harley McNair, Student [by Mitch Sisskind]
Harley McNairStudent “Hi, are you from Possumneck?”This is the greatest pickup line In the world but you got to knowHow to say it like you’re excited, So It’s not like a question, like itEnds with an…
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Harold Bloom: Every Inch a Genius [by David Lehman]
Harold Bloom, the Yale University eminence who died last week at age 89, was the most famous, most prolific, and—to use the apt word—most influential literary critic in America from the time he published The Anxiety…
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Ballet de Lorraine’s “For Four Walls” puts a mirror to Merce Cunningham’s palimpsest [by Tracy Danison]
Petter Jacobsson/Thomas Caley, “For Four Walls”, Ballet de Lorraine 2019©Laurent Philippe Histoires sans histoire(s) is an intercalation of Petter Jacobsson and Thomas Caley’s For Four Walls and Merce Cunnigham’s Fabrications and Sounddance, staged at…
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Happy Birthday, Mr Pinsky [by David Lehman]
As one who believesin the poetics of the big tent,I say we make this an annual eventin the season of changing leaves.And this year, as you turn seventy-seven,whom do I seein heavenbut Igor Stravinskyspeaking…
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Harold Bloom: Born to Teach [by David Lehman]
Word of Harold Bloom's forthcoming book — on the King James Version, 500 years old in 2011 and still the best of Bibles – excites this reader as a volume from no other contemporary…
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In Bojaxi Gezalem (by Mitch Sisskind)
I traveled to Bojaxi Gezalem. I visited the marketplace. I said, “Nuk mos a mund majtas,” which means, “I have been tooting my horn.” I had meant to say, “Ndaloni a mund falamenderit,” which…
