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Next Line, Please: Two-Word Titles [by Virginia Valenzuela]
John Ashbery once said that he liked to begin with a title, rather than end with one, when he sat down to write a poem. Here on Next Line, Please, we are partial to…
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A poem from The Awl by Meghan O’Rourke [posted by Mark Bibbins]
I am moved by the deep physicality of this poem, its small but significant moments of transformation, in which the mundane is made resonant and weird. How do we love someone we’ve never met,…
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On Fulke Greville (in memory of Ted Tayler) [by David Lehman]
(in memory of Edward Tayler, pictured left) Of all the Elizabethanswe studied in Ted Tayler’sfabled senior seminarat Columbia, Fulke Grevilletowered above the restof the masters ofwitty conceits extravagantlyspun out for maximum meaningand beauty of…
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Brexit Envy [by Leon Elson]
Our correspondent in London reports on the mood over there now that Theresa May's plan for Brexit has suffered a second defeat in Parliament – a defeat that has been characterized as "significant," "crushing,"…
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“Le Printemps de la danse arabe#1” inaugurates a new dancing tradition [by Tracy Danison]
Photo: Courtesy LePrintempsArabedeladanse#1 It cheered me up when I saw the press release announcing the Le Printemps de la danse arabe#1 – The Arab Spring of Dance #1. Le Printemps means to be the…
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Poetry News from JFK by [Andrei Codrescu]
I like writing in airport lounges with two hours to spare before an overseas flight. This is the last pleasure left after airports became expensive holding cells in hell. I remember when you could…
