Prufrock's Dilemma

Gertrude Stein, sculpture by Jo Davidson I’d been warned that the exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum, The Steins Collect , was vast...

“ Even if we returned skillfully and victoriously to those wondrous paintings of Tamerlane's time . . . in the final analysis, all ...

In 2011, Vienna, Austria, ranked first in the world for its quality of living.  I have no idea about the veracity of the report .  Its pur...

My poems are meeting places.  Their intent is to make a sudden connection  between aspects of reality that conventional languages and outloo...

When I began my exploration of contemporary classical music, I didn’t have the least idea what to expect.  For the most part, I suspect...

And every word written shall lift off letter by letter, the backward text read ever briefer, even more antic in its effort to insist that...

A journey is always a rescue operation, the documentation and harvesting of something that is becoming extinct and will soon disappear, the ...

His basic attitude toward language is joy.  It amazes me how many people have a problem with that. —Mark Kerstetter The poet John Ashbery ...

I put my hand inside his cranium, oh we had such a brainiac-amour But no more, no more, I gotta move from my mind to the area (go Rimbaud...

This past Easter, George Wallace , in his own inimitable commemoration of Easter Sunday, tweeted out a video of Patti Smith singing her song...