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On The New York School [by Michael Tyrell]
<<<O’Hara’s famous poem "Why I Am Not a Painter" begins with the poet yearning to be a painter. O’Hara reports the process of Mike Goldberg applying the word "sardines" to a canvas as O’Hara…
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“Love Me or Leave Me” with Doris Day (1955) plus Jack Sheldon (“How About You?”) & special guest Judy Garland
l Ralph Freed's lyric for Burton Lane's tune as sung by Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney in Babes on Broadway When a girl meets boyLife can be a joyBut the note they end onWill…
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John Koethe: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_______________________________________________________ The Divinity WithinPrevious Post Sometimes I write to try to figure something out I hadn't understood before, that somebody else has said. I've no idea what "the divinity within" might mean, And yet…
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“Visitation” by Tony Hoagland (1953-2018)
Now when I visit Ellen’s body in my memory,it is like visiting a cemetery. I lookat the chiseled, muscular bellyand at the perfect thirty-year old breastsand the fine blond purse of her pussyand I…
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Virginie Roux-Cassé (re-)discovers the sainted woman [By Tracy Danison]
Sainte Jeune Fille à la Licorne © Virginie Roux-Cassé Carnets pour l’exile: According to tradition, every exile needs to wander aimlessly from time to time, not so much to find a shard of home…
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“Thanksgiving” [by Terence Winch]
Thanksgiving Later, after dinner, we examine your uncle’s photosof trees, flowers, waterfalls, birdsuntil I just can’t stand it another second.I am not at one with nature. Never was.Some of the people can be fooled all…
