In the third night of heart-attack dreams(hearts cracking in the shell of the body) I get out of my bed and watch the palecracked egg of the moon. I picture you at your desk in the prison, holding thispoem in one hand, reading. You reach out the other, spread wide like a fan, and touchthese words on the page. (I see my heart in your hand like an egg, pulsing, blueand untouched.) A poem is thin, translucent as skin at the wrist, a bluearterial map of the coursing of blood from the heart to the reaching limbsof the body, channels of veins pulsing back to the hollow muscle of…
Poet Chenelle Milford's Wedding Star Tattoo Since it's inception in 2008, we here at the Best American Poetry blog have cheered on Bill Cohen, one of our favorite bloggers, as he has assembled an array of tattooed poets for his...
As we discover more and more planets around other stars, the Fermi Paradox is becoming, well, more paradoxical. The Fermi Paradox simply asks the question "where are they?" Our Milky Way galaxy is so big and so old -- and we are estimated to be accompanied by at least 100 billion planets -- that aliens should have visited us by now. Instead, when we peruse the heavens, we are faced with the Great Silence, which is one of the biggest challenges to modern astronomy. Full story at Discovery News. More news from Discovery Communications. Photo credit: Fotolia Permalink | Leave a…
People around the world have reported hearing strange sounds from the skies over the past month. Sometimes they describe it as a hum or low rumble; other times it’s a whine, thump, or even a melody. Often the sounds have been recorded and posted online, fueling rumors and conspiracy theories. One blogger wrote, "either the world is ending, aliens are landing or everyone is getting hoaxed. Or, possibly, there’s an actual scientific explanation for the mass amount of YouTube videos capturing bizarre sounds that are being heard around the globe. Are we witnessing the beginning of a…
As workers begin to extract the half-million gallons of fuel in the shipwrecked cruise liner, locals are worried that their pristine waters are in danger. Reporting by Rossella Lorenzi. Written and produced by Rossella Lorenzi and Martin Berman. Full story at Discovery News. More news from Discovery Communications. Permalink | Leave a comment »
As the violence in Syria continues to escalate, Syrian citizens are arming themselves to resist their oppressive regime. For days, Homs, the third-largest city in Syria, has endured shelling, tanks and attacks by heavy weaponry. Syrian protestors react with more violence against forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, resulting in all-out war zones in some residential neighborhoods. Full story at Discovery News. More news from Discovery Communications. Permalink | Leave a comment »
In the third night of heart-attack dreams(hearts cracking in the shell of the body) I get out of my bed and watch the palecracked egg of the moon. I picture you at your desk in the prison, holding thispoem in one hand, reading. You reach out the other, spread wide like a fan, and touchthese words on the page. (I see my heart in your hand like an egg, pulsing, blueand untouched.) A poem is thin, translucent as skin at the wrist, a bluearterial map of the coursing of blood from the heart to the reaching limbsof the body, channels of veins pulsing back to the hollow muscle of…
Poet Chenelle Milford's Wedding Star Tattoo Since it's inception in 2008, we here at the Best American Poetry blog have cheered on Bill Cohen, one of our favorite bloggers, as he has assembled an array of tattooed poets for his...
Edmund Wilson called it a "shock of recognition," the realization of a truth that you knew but did not previously recognize. It took me twelve hours to be shocked into realizing that the small pain in my right shoulder with...
Evolution with Mushrooms, Bud, and Pineapple(c) Dwight Ripley, 1946 Dwight Ripley has his first show in fifty years, at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, which he helped to found in 1949. In the little back room, where John Ashbery has...
Cordials took a hit with the advent of infused liquors. They used to be our sturdy flavor friends, rarely useful, but rising to the taste when called upon. Now they’ve been downsized, as vodka got more productive, infusing itself with...
Questions for Amy Gerstler I want to believe when you write about like minds that it’s my like mind, not that of Boy George or Famous Author. What started you on the idea of writing to the famous, knowing that...
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