Apr 29
No Such Thing As Karma On The F Train To Queens Or Anywhere Else When the tall thin black kid with the skateboard steps back to give me the open subway seat, I make eye contact, nod thanks and never think it has anything to do with my nearly forty years commuting between Brooklyn and …
Mar 30
Here on Earth (New York Quarterly Books) by Tony Gloeggler Tony Gloeggler’s Here on Earth (New York Quarterly Books) is a collection that refuses distance. These poems don’t observe life so much as remain pressed up against it—breath, illness, memory, regret, tenderness—all unfolding in real time. What emerges from the selected poems is not a …
Nov 30
Dexter You’re streaming that show everyone was talking about ten, twelve years ago, the one with the detached unemotional guy working as a forensic, Los Angeles PD, blood splatter expert who spends his free time hunting down rapists, murderers. You find it easy to root for Dexter as he straps tonight’s serial killer to the …
Oct 04
Admit It, Part Of You Wants To Live Forever No waiting. The E train pulled in as my feet hit the platform and I found an end seat, stretched out as it expressed its way through Queens to catch a Brooklyn bound G. Today, my hernia’s resting quietly and the AC’s a sea breeze. I’m …
