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“Roof Nightclub” [by Ishion Hutchinson]
First, above all, I live forever. And thereafter redecorate paradisein the majesty of the roof nightbulb,DJ Lucifer, at predawn hoursterrifies the floorboards to give way toApollyon’s abyss, reflecting scarred lighton the wall. The…
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Reaching Out For the Sweet Maybe: Four Brief Reviews
From the Inside QuietlyEloisa AmezcuaShelterbelt Press, 2018 Eloisa Amezcua’s debut collection begins with a self-portrait poem in which the speaker, as a child, sinks to the bottom of a pool “legs akimbo,” “screaming words…
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Tom Clark, Reverdy, and Pere-Lachaise in the fog [by David Lehman]
The redoubtable Tom Clark continues to post for Vanitas, where last night appeared a poem with a hard-to-resist title, "One More Saturday Night (for Reverdy's Ghost)," and this ravishing photograph (by Lothar Streidle, 2004)…
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Tom Clark: Try to look upon death as a friend (Terence Winch)
No one who knew Tom Clark would ever deny that he was irascible, brilliant, generous, difficult, funny, erudite. He was also immensely prolific—even in old age, he published his blog, Beyond the Pale, on…
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ONE WEDDING AND A FUNERAL: HOW THE SHOW MUST GO ON [by Jeanne McCulloch]
(Ed note: Earlier in the week we announced publication of Jeanne McCulloch's memoir All Happy Families. Here's an essay with more of the backstory to Jeanne's fine memoir. sdl) In the spring of 1983,…
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“Molly’s Folly” [by Molly Arden]
Humans are the species that lovethe sexual organs of the opposite sex.Some of us are nervous wrecks.You did not bend to pick up my glove. The difference between masculine and feminineis slender but not…
