Turn away long enough, and people think you have forgotten them entirely. Show your displeasure, and first they hate you, and then they despair, and finally, scarcely acknowledging it to themselves, they miss you. Change the game again, to see if they follow. The best ones can. The smart ones always do. - Allegra Goodman, The Cookbook Collector I just...
Read More“Kansas”, Vienna Teng
Musical Mondays: Kansas by Vienna Teng it’s not regret just an unexpected accounting of debts only now called no, it’s not regret just remembrance is all of how close we had come the war almost won but I sent up our flag and moved on Sometimes when it’s the end of summer, and you’re really tired, you think things like: why...
Read MoreScenes from a Weekend Poetry Conference
When I see the students, I break into acne again, remembering my English teacher, tweedy breath and patched sleeves, when Dylan Thomas was young and easy under the apple trees and cummings slept with a lady named death. Nothing has changed. This boy wears a black beret, reads Ginsberg and howls. Back home, a perfect domestic moon lights the boy’s...
Read MoreWilliam Wegman
William Wegman is an American photographer who is best known for his photographs of dogs, namely his own Weimeraniers. Originally Wegman planned to work as a painter, and has a BFA in painting at Massachusetts College of Art as well as an MFA in painting from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He began photographing while teaching at California...
Read More“Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey,” Hayden Carruth
Scrambled eggs and whiskeyin the false-dawn light. Chicago,a sweet town, bleak, God knows,but sweet. Sometimes. Andweren’t we fine tonight?When Hank set up that limpingtreble roll behind memy horn just growled and I thought my heart would burst.And Brad M. pressing with thesoft stick and Joe-Annesinging low. Here we are nowin the White Tower,...
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