Vulvas in Milk:  On The Dreamers (dir. Bernardo Bertolucci) and Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille

Author’s Note: I am now offering my services on Fiverr. I will beta read your poem(s) and short stories for … More

Poetry Postmortem #11: Three Women by Sylvia Plath

‘I am a garden of black and red agonies.’ In a maternity ward, three women contemplate their lives, the brutality … More

March ’25: Can You Smell The Cigars?

Books: Letters of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes and Christopher Reid & Sylvia Plath in Devon: A Year’s Turning by … More

The Ambition Bird: Fiona Larkin and The Poetry Society

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Violette Leduc’s ‘The Lady and the Little Fox Fur & the Art of Distance

“I think that I shall never knowWhy I am thus, and I am so.”—A Fairly Sad Tale, Dorothy Parker ⧫ … More

Between Fire and Ice: Imogen Wade, The Spectator, and what traditional poetry looks like today

“Some say the world will end in fire / Some say in ice.”—Fire and Ice, Robert Frost Last year’s National … More

Poetry Postmortem #10: Love in the Asylum

After falling ill at the famed Chelsea Hotel, Dylan Thomas was taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital where he succumbed to … More

Born to Judge

“These born to judge as well as those to writeLet such teach others who themselves excel.” —Alexander Pope, An Essay on … More

How I Wrote It: We Left the Garden

Charles Simic famously said that the prose poem “has the unusual distinction of being regarded with suspicion not only by … More

Battle of the Bards

“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.” —W. H. Auden A recent … More