Ana María Campos | Alberto Quero

              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       …

Kids in the yard got nothing on me, I’m not it either When I tell them they look at me with confusion, then slowly back away. The post Not It | Alan Inman appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online

dreams come truethat didn’t beforethe world as you wanted itbeing proved right in being unsure meeting people close far away from youpeople you missa coincidence that turned outto be your golden destiny with a kiss having courage to talk about somethingno need to feignbeing at favourite virtual YouTube concerts in the fleshhelping mosquitos to bugger…

While Sonny is driving  to his death, he’s listening to the October 3,1951 radio broadcast of Russ Hodges calling the decisive third game of the Dodgers-Giants playoff — a half-inning before Bobby Thomson ended the Dodgers’ season with the “Shot Heard ‘Round the World, which many consider the national pastime’s all-time greatest moment. Both Frankie Avalon and Vic Damone auditioned for the role…

I got up from the bench I was sleeping on in DuPont Circle, cleaned up, bought new makeup and new clothes, grew breasts, endured attacks by conspiracies of friends and strangers, and walked back to the circle where there were half-naked people, corporate sponsors, and a bigoted preacher screaming, “You abominations should be ashamed of…

Lionel Trilling, then an assistant professor at Columbia working on his thesis on Matthew Arnold, turned twenty-nine on July 4, 1934. That fall he and Jacques Barzun, 26, taught a seminar that convened on Wednesday evenings for the next twenty years. It was for seniors only and you had to have top grades to qualify….