National Poetry Month #8: Liz Taylor’s Talents
Sean MurphyApril, according to this poet, is the cruelest month. April, according to these lovers of poetry, is National Poetry Month, and the only cruelty is metaphorical (which isn’t to say T.S. Eliot was being…
National Poetry Month #7: Joey Kocur’s Fist
April, according to this poet, is the cruelest month. April, according to these lovers of poetry, is National Poetry Month, and the only cruelty is metaphorical (which isn’t to say T.S. Eliot was being…
National Poetry Month #6: Kurt Vonnegut’s Cigarettes
April, according to this poet, is the cruelest month. April, according to these lovers of poetry, is National Poetry Month, and the only cruelty is metaphorical (which isn’t to say T.S. Eliot was being…
Faith and Fiction: The Story Behind the Story (of a Story)
i. True story: my sister, during her junior or senior year at Boston University, called to talk about what I didn't yet realize was a classic college cliché, disguised as…
National Poetry Month #5: Charles Bukowski’s Bounty
April, according to this poet, is the cruelest month. April, according to these lovers of poetry, is National Poetry Month, and the only cruelty is metaphorical (which isn’t to say T.S. Eliot was being…
National Poetry Month #4: Charlie Parker’s Premonition
April, according to this poet, is the cruelest month. April, according to these lovers of poetry, is National Poetry Month, and the only cruelty is metaphorical (which isn’t to say T.S. Eliot was being…
National Poetry Month #3: Intimation
April, according to this poet, is the cruelest month. April, according to these lovers of poetry, is National Poetry Month, and the only cruelty is metaphorical (which isn’t to say T.S. Eliot was being…
National Poetry Month #2: To the ones that got away
Portrait of the Poet as a Young Man April, according to this poet, is the cruelest month. April, according to these lovers of poetry, is National Poetry Month, and the only cruelty…
National Poetry Month #1: Shafi Hadi’s Silence
April, according to this poet, is the cruelest month. April, according to these lovers of poetry, is National Poetry Month, and the only cruelty is metaphorical (which isn't to say…
Ozymandias in Atlantic City
Like virtually every aspect of all-things Trump, he (and the damage he's wrought) manages to be beyond satire, beyond fiction, and even the real time (fake news?) accounts strain credulity.…