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  • “My sex life” [by Angela Sundstrom]

    August 24, 2018

    I like my dogmore than you. — Angela Sundstrom from the archives: first posted February 20, 2012

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  • In Memory of Morgan Russell [poems by Vincent Katz and Morgan Russell]

    August 24, 2018

    (Ed note: When I learned that Vincent Katz’s friend Morgan Russell passed away on July 17, I asked Vincent for a tribute. He generously agreed and just last week sent these two poems. The…

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  • #TBT: At the Institute Cervantes with John Ashbery, David Kermani, David Lehman and Mónica de la Torre, 2004

    August 23, 2018

    at the Institute Cervantes in New York City, 2004:

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  • Catullus #25 (trans. Molly Arden)

    August 23, 2018

    Thallus, you letch: softer than rabbit furis your phallus and sack of nutsthat dangle from your old man crotch,  festooned with cobwebs, and still you’re as greedy as a gonif [line missing here] Give…

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  • Garrett Hongo makes Tuna Poke [by Stacey Lehman]

    August 22, 2018

    Every Friday for the past 40-odd years the Owl’s Head Lobster Co has set up shop in the parking lot of the Triphammer Mall here in Ithaca, NY. At 6:45 am the two friendly…

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  • Next Line, Please: Of Rivers, Lovers, Battles, and Repetitions [by Virginia Valenzuela]

    August 22, 2018

    This week’s prompt brought us from a predetermined opening line (“It is impossible to love the same person twice”) to a predetermined closing line (“A thought is as real a thing as a cannonball”),…

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