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On Immortality; or, Just When You Thought Agoraphobia Was Curable [by James Cummins]
Jim Longenbach, estimable poet and critic, visited our humble scene a few years back and gave a terrific lecture and poetry reading. In the awkward making-conversation at Starbuck's preceding the events, we got to…
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CONSUL & MESHIE: a memento mori for the Age of Aquarius [by Tracy Danison]
Consul&Meshie©AnjaWeber Does your mind keep getting fogged up? Yes, mine, too. The fog’s why I keep a “memento mori” on or around me. I recommend it. When a thick bank of the opaque, cold,…
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At Seventy: A Last Day Journal [by Jeffrey Levine]
How much of what we tell ourselves, let alone what we write, is collaged from bits and pieces of so-called real life? Richard Hugo says, In a poem you make something up, say for…
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Squib 307: Notes on Willie Mays at the End, Followed by a Hypothetical [by Alan Ziegler]
I’ve never liked when sportswriters disdain great athletes playing past their prime, arrogantly asserting they should have quit before the sad decline. Willie Mays was well past his prime at 40 when my father…
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Is a market top on tap? “Noodles” weighs in [by David Lehman]
Everyone knows that stocks these days, especially US stocks, are overvalued. But picking a market top is no easy matter. David Aronson, former professor at Baruch College, now president of a research firm that…
