by Allison Benis White
Never mind eternity. The moment before smoke withers it appears animal. A gray back turned above a white billowed skirt and the charcoal circle fallen around her feet. We will wipe this away later. Her hat is made of ashes. Even with several pins, it is difficult to keep fastened. Arms lifted to center it in the mirror but the tips of her fingers turn black. Whatever she …
The East, the West, and Sex: A History of Erotic Encounters
by Richard Bernstein
-Reviewed by Shahnaz Habib
Richard Bernstein’s The East, The West, and Sex is a swashbuckling, bodice-ripping romance in …
The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox
by John Freeman
–Reviewed by Angilee Shah
It is not particularly surprising that a ubiquitous literary critic finds our growing e-mail …
by Jean-Michel Maulpoix
You take the ocean on wide-ruled notebooks where you draw round
letters that stain. Sometimes you play music, your back nice and straight,
your heart in tears, not …
With its November 13, 1940, premiere at New York’s Broadway Theater, the Walt Disney film “Fantasia” opened to a considerable amount of criticism from those who protested the unconventional mixture …
by Kim Addonizio
Sometimes, when we’re lying after love,
I look at you and see your body’s future
of lying beneath the earth; putting the heel
of my hand against your …
by Paul Beilstein Out of the vapor, an ovaloid droplet, on this day or that, drops with four trillion gallons-worth or so all over the world. Slightly more than half of what falls
Arable The land around coaxes out almonds, apricots, walnuts. At 3 a.m., the call to irrigate. Bone We work our fingers to the bone. We are bone-tired. C’mon, throw the dog …
by Tony Barnstone Miss Wonder Woman, Amazon, is sore from twenty thousand crunches every night, but when she fought the Mars Men and she tore her costume she knew to get …
a woman looking out the armhole of her dress, her hair cut off in the sink—she can’t stand it when her bangs aren’t even. she has been asleep for years, absent …
