Poetry

St. Petersburg | The Moon Faced Girl

Standing on a corner in St. Petersburg, cooling off, waiting for my taxi to arrive The two models I had…

5 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

Li Po | Listening to a Flute in Yellow Crane Pavillion

I came here a wanderer thinking of home, remembering my far away Ch'ang-an. And then, from deep in Yellow Crane…

14 years ago

Raymond Carver | Loafing

Loafing I looked into the room a moment ago, and this is what I saw— my chair in its place…

15 years ago

Sharon Olds | The One Girl at the Boys Party

The One Girl at the Boys Party When I take my girl to the swimming party I set her down…

15 years ago

The Hamptons | The End of Summer

Labor Day weekend in The Hamptons. Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. -Sam Keen Till Summer folds her miracle-…

15 years ago

Jim Carroll, 1949 – 2009

I met him in 1970, and already he was pretty much universally recognized as the best poet of his generation.…

15 years ago

Frank O’Hara | Music

Music If I rest for a moment near The Equestrian pausing for a liver sausage sandwich in the Mayflower Shoppe,…

15 years ago

Cory O’Malley, 1974-2009

So long, Cory. Rest in Peace. The Moving Finger writes; and having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor…

15 years ago