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Tom Cassani’s really big trick: Iterations of the small [By Tracy Danison]
“Iterations” by writer, performer and magician Tom Cassani. Photo © Camille Blake Forecast, Skills e.V. The other day I was trying to focus on Marion Zurbach‘s excellent Les Héritiers-x (“The Inheritors-x”) and one of the many…
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“Green Versus Orange” [by Joe Lehman]
A smart man who has entered middle age should remain on a never-ending quest of introspection and self-analysis. The literary parallel to life’s span is in Charles Dickens’s short tale “The Child’s Story.” An…
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Gerard Manley Hopkins — Great Poems of the World, episode 19, with David Lehman and Mitch Sisskind
An odd duck and a great one! Spring and Fall to a young child (1880) Márgarét, áre you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves like the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts…
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It’s Magic: Doris Day on her Birthday (April 3)
The great Doris Day, who died the other day [May 2019], was celebrated for her work in romantic comedies of the 1960s. She was box office gold with James Garner, Cary Grant, and…
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Sweet Tea by John Lane [by Nin Andrews]
I know AWP just happened, and everyone can't stop talking about it. I used to go the conference but haven't attended for years. I can't say I miss it. But then again, I do…
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Two Poems from Whirlwind Duststorm by John Hawke [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
There’s a certain watchmaker’s quality to many of the poems in John Hawke’s collection Whirlwind Duststorm (published by the excellent Grand Parade Poets): assemblages of distinct parts meticulously pieced together into compact forms that…
