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“2001, A Backward Glance” [by Jane Mayhall, with a note from Leslie Daniels]
Men are mad so unavoidably that not to be mad would constitute one a madman of another order of madness. —PASCAL Busting out with mumble, the year when low-grade virus opinion took on…
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“Anthem” [poem by Bruce Bond, video by Mike Gioia]
Bruce Bond is a poet living in Denton Texas. When visiting Bond at his house in a shady suburb of Denton, multiple subtleties strike you about the man– his quiet manner, his late hours,…
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Chloé Silbano’s visual free verse shows more than a guy kill time [by Tracy Danison]
Historical etymology! What a marvelous sump of self-satisfying instruction! Badaud, the French word for “gawker”. Give it here. We can say it comes from the late Latin for “largely open”, then “yawn”, then through…
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“Terence Winch defies to be tagged. . .” [by Anne Harding Woodworth]
From Anne Harding Woodworth's review of Terence Winch's latest book: <<<Terence Winch is not a narrative poet all the time, though The Known Universe contains some lovely stories in verse. Nor might he be pegged…
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The Greatest Senate Majority Leader We Ever Had [by David Lehman]
The greatest senate majority leader we have ever had was Walter Pidgeon in Advise and Consent. who is "as virile as a bull-goat," according to his charming mistress (Gene Tierney), in addition to being…
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Meditations on John Ashbery, 1929-2017 [by Vincent Katz]
Juan Martín del Potro is playing Rafael Nadal in the Semifinal at the U.S. Open, and suddenly I am thinking how John Ashbery could, had he been watching, turn all this — the court,…
