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The Golden Age of Paranoia [by Joe Lehman]
Strange Days Indeed — The 1970s: The Golden Age of Paranoia by Francis Wheen was first published in Great Britain in 2009, amid the early days of the Great Recession following the collapse of…
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Alexandra Lacroix’s “Entre nous, les saisons”: How to perform climate catastrophe [By Tracy Danison]
“Entre nous, les saisons” by Alexandra Lacroix. Photo: © Raphael Creton I was Googling an equivalent for du lard du cochon and ran across the factoid that, before the 18th century, there were two…
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“Poem in the Manner of the 1950s” [by David Lehman]
a prose poem from Michigan Quarterly Review Top of Form Volume XLII, Issue 2: Mainly on the 1950s, Spring 2003 Poem in the Manner of the 1950s Lehman, David …
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George Bilgere’s Poetry Town, Elissa Gabbert’s “The Essay As Realm,” and Grace Cavalieri’s Artwork
These days I don’t want to read the news. I don’t want to turn on NPR. I don’t want to check my phone and read all those annoying political texts. Instead, I want to…
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“Society Must Be Defended” [by Jerome Sala]
Society Must Be Defended from this poem. Its inconsequence is a problem.A problem Society doesn’t know about.Problems known, as we all know (don’t we?)can be harvested, like souls in need of repentance.But the uncounted…
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Two poems by joanne burns [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
Another prose poem this week by another virtuoso of the form. joanne burns (who has previously been featured on the BAP blog here) has published fourteen collections of poetry since her debut Snatch appeared…
