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“We’ll catch up some other time. . .” [by Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green]
Just listen. Haven't done half the things we wanted – There's so much more embracing still to be done, but time is racing O well — Never have seen you do the dishes —…
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Met Percent: Week Seven [by Alec Bernstein]
Byzantine Leads to Gothic Sarcophagus, Byzantine, early 300s, gallery 300 Capital with Four Heads, Gothic, 1225–50, gallery 304 Just never saw it that way 1,000 years from the end of Rome to the…
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Poem for Rosh Hashanah: “For I Will Consider Your Dog Molly” [poem by David Lehman]
Molly with Stick, Cayuga Lake, 1981 (c) Glen Hartley For I will Consider Your Dog Molly For it was the first day of Rosh Ha'shanah, New Year's Day, day of remembrance, of…
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Un-naming modern primitivism and Beauty in Mondrian’s abstraction [by Tracy Danison]
Rene Rimbert, "Nature morte au jeu de cartes"©Musée Maillol, Paris Two lovely and intriguing painting exhibitions ongoing at Musée Maillol and Musée Marmottan Monet offer more than their titles suggest. Les Grands maîtres naïfs:…
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Straight Down the Line: Noir Dialogue [by David Lehman and Suzanne Lummis]
Name some striking lines of noir dialogue that stick with you? Suzanne Lummis: Some might see this coming, since it’s shown up a couple times–in my poem called “Venetian Blinds: Ghazal-like Noir” and in…
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“Opening Shot” [by David Lehman]
Marsh Hawk Press has sponsored the wonderful Chapter One project, brief memoirs "on becoming a poet," a new chapter each month, with contributions from Denise Duhamel, Phillip Lopate, Eileen Tabios, Jane Hirshfield, Burt Kimmelman, Sandy…
