…in just a few days the rumor spread of the rooms emptied of words and filled with screams. Swollen eyes. — By Emilio Zucchi, Translated by Beppe Cavatorta and Brenna Ward. I’m sitting outside on a cool mid-November evening the day after the next violence resting by a little fire I’ve started smoke mostly an …
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Henrietta Goodman’s book Antilla takes its title from a phantom island that appeared on 15th century maps. The lush poems in Antilla (The Backwaters Press) continually question what is here and what isn’t, through ghostly presences. In “What Are We Going to Turn Into?” Goodman even refers to her son as pop culture’s friendly ghost…
Alexander Mackendrick Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis), a press agent, is pissed. J. J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster) has been shutting his gossip out of his famous newspaper column for days now — all because Falco has somehow failed to break up a relationship between Hunsecker’s sister, Susan (Susan Harrison) and a guitar player in Chico…
Michael Farrell is one of Australian poetry’s great experimenters. Over his eight collections to date he has pushed at the limits of form, structure, syntax and more to interrogate, and indeed reshape, what “Australian poetry” actually means, particularly in its post-colonial paradigm. His seminal critical work Writing Australian Unsettlement: Modes of Poetic Invention 1796 –…
We have asked Ed Ochester (above) to edit our Sunday poetry pages for the next few months. Here is one of Ed’s poems: March of the Penguins The editor of National Review urged [Young Republicans] to see the movie because it promoted monogamy. A widely …
I’m looking for love,Constantly, it seems,Not sure what it looks like,How it feels, butI know it will fulfill meLike nothing else whenIt comes into my life.I await eagerly,Who will my love be?It could be anyone…Someone close,Perhaps far,A caring soul whoUnderstands me andMakes me feel divine.I’m looking for love…Hope it’s looking for me,I know it will…
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