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“You’re My Thrill” [by David Lehman]
"You're My Thrill" — as sung by Helen Merrill (1965) 1. You’re my thrill,my joint, my shot, my magic pill. I dwell in that gaudy denof smoke and mirrors where, when you close my…
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“In Search of the Sublime”: The Art of Ricardo Jose Mujica
<<<Born and raised in New York City, Ricky Mujica studied art at the High School of Art and Design, Parsons in Paris, and at Parsons School of Design. The artwork of Ricky Mujica was…
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On George Gershwin’s Birthday (9/26): Dean & Ella Sing a ‘Swonderful Medley
The first four minutes are all Gershwin.
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Expansive preferences: Extra! an annual festival of living words at Centre Pompidou [by Tracy Danison]
Translingual poet Cia Rinne has won the 2019 Prix Bernard Heidsieck for work on the living word awarded during the annual Extra! literary festival©Hervé Veronese/Centre Pompidou Maybe poets and literati should take a leaf…
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Why Poets Love Noir #12: The First Time [by David Lehman and Suzanne Lummis]
What about film noir first appealed to you, and has that changed over the years? Or not? Suzanne Lummis: Initially, it wasn’t film noir that hooked me—it was classic crime fiction, the hardboiled stuff…
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“Get Drunk” [Baudelaire, “Enivrez-vous,” trans. D. Lehman]
You must get drunk. That’s it: your sole imperative. To immunize yourself from the backbreaking, body-bending burdens of time, you must get drunk and stay that way. But on what? On wine, on poetry,…
