“The Death of a Wasp” by Quincy Lehr
Quincy R. Lehr was raised in Norman, Oklahoma and presently lives in Brooklyn, having returned to the U.S. after two years in Ireland. His work has appeared in print and online venues… Read More
Support “Music After”: Marathon Concert Representing Creative Musicians Downtown on September 11th
Music After is a marathon concert, co-produced by composers Eleonor Sandresky and Daniel Felsenfeld, to take place on September 11, 2011 at Joyce SoHo on Mercer Street, commencing at 9:18am and finishing… Read More
“Earth Tremors Felt in Missouri” by Mona Van Duyn
"Mona Van Duyn has assembled, in a language at once beautiful and exact, one of the most convincing bodies of work in our poetry." - Alfred Corn… Read More
“Sentence” by Witter Bynner
“Witter Bynner, you’re going to have a bitter winter.” - a "badly soused" Hart Crane… Read More
“27,000 Miles” by Albert Goldbarth
"Half of Goldbarth's imagination . . . is what is usually called religious. Goldbarth's tenderness toward the mystical does not, however, vitiate his enormous curiosity, or the momentum of his zest, or… Read More
“One to a Customer!” Yeah, with Five Different Rums in It, That’s Probably a Good Idea
"On National Rum Day, enjoy the rummiest classic recipe we could find. From our 1941 edition of W.C. Whitfield's drink mixing masterpiece 'Here's How,' a Zombie cocktail that calls for no fewer… Read More
“Drum” by Philip Levine
"I believed even then that if I could transform my experience into poetry I would give it the value and dignity it did not begin to possess on its own. I thought… Read More
“Poem for Happiness” by Matthew Zapruder
"Zapruder's innovative style is provocative in its unusual juxtapositions of line, image and enjambments." - Library Journal… Read More
“Confusion . . . Distaste . . . Impatience . . . Inadequacy . . . Ambivalence . . . . Television”: Notes on Poetry
Thanks to Casey for sending this one in. … Read More
Feel Guilty Riding the Bus? Too Much Pollution? Not Enough Exercise? Never Fear! You Can Ride the City Cycle!
The 14 passenger hybrid City Cycle! Thanks to Andrew for sending this in. … Read More
“While Reading the Revelation of St. John the Divine, I Turn on the Television” by Garrick Davis
Garrick Davis is an American poet and critic. He was born in Los Angeles, California in 1971. He served as the literary specialist of the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington,… Read More
“Leviathan” by W.S. Merwin
"Can you draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which you let down?" - Job 41:1, KJV… Read More
“Questions for Leonardo” by Malinda Miller
Malinda C. Miller has served as an editor of Many Mountains Moving, and her poetry has appeared in Improv, Open Windows III, and In the Named World, and Poems from the Poetry… Read More
“Summer Stars” by Carl Sandburg
“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.” - Carl Sandburg… Read More
“A Lesson for This Sunday” by Derek Walcott
"The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself." - Derek Walcott … Read More
“For Once, Then, Something” by Robert Frost
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost… Read More
“A Green Crab’s Shell” by Mark Doty
"Doty's fourth collection, coming after the 1993 National Book Critics' Circle award-winning My Alexandria, is anchored in the lush and pressing world of loss. He begins calmly with sensually descriptive poems that… Read More
“The Transformation of Arachne into a Spider” by Ovid, translated by Sir Samuel Garth, John Dryden, et al, from Book the Sixth of Metamorphoses
"The first taste I had for books came to me from my pleasure in the fables of the Metamorphoses of Ovid. For at about seven or eight years of age I would… Read More
“Song of the Lotos-Eaters” by Alfred Tennyson, Lord Tennyson
"Our readers will, we think, agree that this is admirable characteristic; and that the singers of this song must have made pretty free with the intoxicating fruit. How they got home you… Read More
“Sonnet to Insomnia” by Moira Egan
Moira Egan is an American poet who lives in Rome. She is the author of Cleave (WWPH 2004), which was nominated for the National Book Award and was a Finalist for the… Read More
“At the Fishhouses” by Elizabeth Bishop
Maybe this will cool us down a bit today . . . … Read More
“Today” by Frank O’Hara
"[Frank O'Hara's] work seems to me to represent the last stage in the adaptation of twentieth-century avant-garde sensibility to poetry about contemporary American experience. In its music and its language and in… Read More
“The Starvefish” by Katy Evans-Bush
"Poems full of life, wit, and vitality." - Linda Grant… Read More
“After Summer Fell Apart” by Yusef Komunyakaa
"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for Neon Vernacular, but perhaps best known for Dien Cai Dau, poems chronicling his experiences as a journalist in Vietnam, Komunyakaa is one of this… Read More
“Apprentice Work” by James Byrne
James Byrne is the Editor and co-founder of The Wolf poetry magazine (www.wolfmagazine.co.uk). His debut collection, Passages of Time, was published by Flipped Eye in 2003. His second collection, Blood/Sugar, will be… Read More
“Say Something that is Insanely Smart But Also Kind of Mean”: What Would Don Draper Do? Courtesy of The Oatmeal
New fun from the brilliant website The Oatmeal. If you're not familiar with this website, please visit right away. Also, buy the book. I have, and it's worth it.… Read More
“Two Butterflies Went Out at Noon” by Emily Dickinson
"Although Emily Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime. The work that was published during her lifetime was… Read More
“Several Voices Out of a Cloud” by Louise Bogan
Thanks to Jan Schreiber who sent this in as a response to Niall McDevitt's poem. … Read More