#AmericanWriters
In Rotterdam I’m going to speak about the state of poetry on a panel with a Pole and a Turk. It’s worth
It’s my birtday I’ve got an empty stomach and the desire to be lazy in the hammock and maybe go for a cool swim on a hot day with the trombone in Sinatra’s
Wisteria, hysteria is as obvious a… as Viagra and Niagara there must… honeymooners traditionally went to… which were, said the divine Oscar, an American bride’s second biggest…
When she says Margarita she means… When she says quixotic she means m… And when she says, “I’ll never sp… she means, “Put your arms around m… as I stand disconsolate at the win…
I like walking on streets as black… now, at two in the solemnly musica… in this town emptied of Lestrygoni… is asleep or trying or worrying wh… they aren’t asleep, while unknown…
(July 15) We know who the guards are in those POW movies with brutal
We have too much exhibitionism and not enough voyeurism in poetry we have plenty of bass and not enough treble, more amber beer than the frat boys can drink…
What can you say about the Mets down three games to none one run down with six outs to go Cedeno singles steals second Mora… they pull off a double steal
It’s the day of the ram and the head of the year Rosh Ha’Shanah at services I sat next to Mel Torme who outshone
Eighty-one degrees a record high f… which is not my birthday but will… the eleventh of June comes around… what I want: a wide-brimmed Panam… with a tan hatband, a walk in the…
No two are identical though they begin from the same point in time the same point in the dream when the radio shuts itself off in the middle of
There comes a time when the story… different stories and soon after t… retreats to the cave of a solitary… metropolis where no one remembers… whic is, of course, a sign of its…
What I propose is not Marxism, which is not dead yet in the English department, Not maximalism, which was
Can’t swim; uses credit cards and… intolerable feelings of inadequacy… Won’t admit his dread of boredom,… numerous marital infidelities; Looks fat in jeans, mouths clichés…
Did you know that Evian spelled b… I myself was unaware of this fact… when John Ashbery, Marc Cohen, a… gave a poetry reading and I introd… to an audience that already knew t…