Poetry

Tom Waits | On The Pogues’ Rum, Sodomy & the Lash

Tom Waits writes about his 20 most cherished albums in an article in The Guardian. Here is his passage about…

7 years ago

Leonard Cohen | On Conde Guitars

When I was packing in Los Angeles to come here, I had a sense of unease because I've always felt…

7 years ago

Istanbul | Lâle Müldür

Wandering the streets in Beyoğlu one afternoon, my friend Çiğdem elbowed me and pointed out a woman standing nearby with…

10 years ago

John Loengard | Portraits

In a painting no one complains that the subject is posed, but everybody complains about what looks posed in a…

11 years ago

Aleksander Bochenek | I Love My Sudder Street

From Le Journal de la Photographie: This is the story of Roshni Mallick and her family living on Sudder Street…

11 years ago

Frank O’Hara | A Blade of Grass

One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes—I can't even enjoy a…

11 years ago

Larry Towell | Day of the Dead

Child with star mask during "Day Of The Dead". Other child in background rolls tire for repair in garage where…

13 years ago

James E. Hinton | Carmichael, Jones, and Brown

I say you better get a gun. Violence is necessary—it is as American as cherry pie. —H. Rap Brown  …

13 years ago

E. O. Hoppé | Ezra Pound

The only thing that makes me pause is to wonder whether the ingenuity of modern apparatus is not in itself…

13 years ago

Eve Arnold | William Carlos Williams

The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost. — William Carlos Williams A…

14 years ago