StereoGranimator: Create and share animated GIFs and 3D anaglyphs using more than 40,000 stereographs from The New York Public Library
"NYPL Labs is proud to bring you the Stereogranimator, a tool for transforming historical stereographs from The New York Public Library's vast collections into shareable 3D web formats. This site is all… Read More
Cynthia Says “Yes We Have No Bananas”
Cynthia goes shopping and checks out the labels . . . … Read More
Florida Antiquarian Book Fair and Flappers!
Flappers in Florida, oh yeah. … Read More
Cynthia Asks: Dr. Seuss and De Niro, Separated at Birth?
We are so used to seeing Dr. Seuss with his classic beard and big glasses that it seemed very strange to see him as a younger man. Stranger still, is an… Read More
Tibullus’ Elegies, Book I, Elegy I, translated by A.M. Juster
A.M. Juster is a three-time winner of the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award. His poems and translations have appeared in The Paris Review, Southwest Review, First Things, The New Criterion, North American Review,… Read More
“Lord Byron’s Foot” by George Green
Come out for the E-Verse Equinox Reading Series on Thursday, March 22nd, at Robin's Books in Philadelphia to hear George Green read the hilarious title poem from his debut collection. This is… Read More
“His Schlong” is a Correct Answer on Family Feud
How the hell did this happen???… Read More
Cynthia Asked You to Give Something Up. Now There’s Something She Wants You to Save
"When we talk about breast cancer, there's no women or superwomen. Everybody has to do the self-examination monthly. Fight with us against the enemy and, when in doubt, talk with your doctor."… Read More
“Currents (first)” by Bojan Louis
Bojan Louis is a member of the Navajo Nation. His poems have been published in The Kenyon Review, Platte Valley Review, and Hinchas de Poesía; his fiction in Alaska Quarterly Review. He… Read More
Red Hen Press at Bowery Poetry Club in New York City, with David Yezzi, Andrea Scarpino, Bryn Saito, and George Green!
Fantastic lineup. Not to be missed!… Read More
Three Poems by G.M. Palmer, from His Brand-New Debut Volume With Rough Gods
"Mythmaking is the first art. Written with a unity of vision largely forgotten by contemporary poetry, G.M. Palmer’s With Rough Gods grazes the foundations of Greek mythology, endowing gods and legends with… Read More
Cynthia Brings Us Gardening in a New Direction and Her Photos from the Orchid Show at the New York Botanical Gardens
Patrick Blanc may not be a household name but it should be. He has been a pioneer in combining gardening and architecture in ways that are stunning to behold including taking… Read More
Lionel Richie’s Song “Hello” Recreated Entirely from Short Dialogue Clips from Films
Is it me you're looking for? … Read More
“White Horse” by Ernest Hilbert in The Oxonian Review of Books, with Audio
This poem appears along with two others from my work-in-progress Welcome to All the Pleasures over at the Oxonian Review.… Read More
Moving Takahashi
"An ambitious mover is blindsided when he discovers that one of the pieces of furniture left behind for him is a suicidal daughter with 20 minutes left to live."… Read More
Ben Downing Invites You to an English Salon
Ben Downing, a Harvard graduate, has written a variety of books and articles, and has taught writing and literature courses at Columbia, Bryn Mawr, and the 92nd Street Y. … Read More
Cynthia’s “Other Ways to Have a Fling”
Since Bethany brought up websites for people who want to have affairs, I thought I'd respond with some other ways to have a fling!… Read More
“Glacier” by Ernest Hilbert in the Oxonian Review
The quasi-mythical events detailed in "Glacier" occurred when I climbed to the rim of Arapaho Glacier in Colorado (12,250 ft.) with fellow poets David Yezzi and Charles Doersch in the summer of… Read More
“A Postcard From The Volcano” by Wallace Stevens
“Far more than Eliot or Pound, Stevens wished passionately to be above all a poet of twentieth-century America and its American English; and he had the luck, as they did not, to… Read More
“It’s Austerely Fun!”: Cormac McCarthy Pictionary
Thanks to Brian Heston for bringing this to my attention. … Read More
“St. Martin’s Lane” by Ben Mazer
Ben Mazer's most recent collections of poems are Poems (The Pen & Anvil Press, 2010) and January 2008 (Dark Sky Books, 2010). "St. Martin's Lane" is from his new collection Tales of… Read More
“Highway to Hell” by AC/DC
I'm reading Joe Bonomo's book AC/DC's Highway To Hell, part of the diverting 33 1/3 series by Continuum. The series matches a famous (or infamous) album with a music critic who analyzes… Read More
Ernie Appears on “Boys with Beards with Cats” Website
Hard to get a cat to smile on cue . . . … Read More
“Method Actor” by Justin Stokes
"A powerful 3 minute short film which presents the monologue of a single actor (John Shrapnel). Through his reminiscences the audience gets an insight a dark, confused and embittered mind."… Read More
“Ah, Are You Digging On My Grave?” by Thomas Hardy
"Hardy's poetry explores a fatalist outlook against the dark, rugged landscape of his native Dorset. He rejected the Victorian belief in a benevolent God, and much of his poetry reads as a… Read More
Bethany’s “Things I learned from Reading Gabby”
I recently read the book Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope by Giffords and her husband (Mark Kelly, a navy pilot who served in the first Gulf War, as well as… Read More
“Fire Safety” by Joshua Mehigan
“Mr. Mehigan is Frost-like in the way he plays speech rhythms against the patterns of verse, creating a tense, deceptively simple music. . . . Mr. Mehigan also has something of Frost’s… Read More