Flash Fiction
How She Won Him, 1910
- With Helen Gardner
by Dorin Schumacher
March 21, 2025
I take a train to Brooklyn and knock on the door that says VITAGRAPH. The armpits of my dress are wet. A man in a bowler opens the door. “Helen Gardner, here to audition for the moving picture,” I say. I put my hand out and he doesn’t shake it... read more >
POETRY
Nightingale Mode
by Jonathan Katz
March 07, 2025
Do I wake or sleep?
– – – John Keats
I have quantified and abstracted everything
that could be measured.
I thought defining poetry would not be difficult
once prose was defined... read more >
POETRY
Three Poems
by Beatriu Delaveda
March 14, 2025
JASPER JOHNS AND ME
A PANTOUM
Jasper Johns: "Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it."
Jasper Johns makes it sound so easy
I mean for him, maybe...
read more >
POETRY
Fuel for Love
by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Review by James Berger
October 03, 2024
Jeffrey Cyphers Wright’s new book–the latest of many: Fuel for Love. Everyone knows Jeff Wright–as editor-publisher-curator-impressario and poet. Go to any reading in New York south of 14th St or in Brooklyn and Jeff either has organized it, is reading in it, or just has showed up because he’s a friend of the readers... read more >
