Don’t walk away, Renee, I’m just getting warmed up your body is like a river and I’m going to swim across I want to explore the left

I like walking on streets as black… now, at two in the solemnly musica… in this town emptied of Lestrygoni… is asleep or trying or worrying wh… they aren’t asleep, while unknown…

In Rotterdam I’m going to speak about the state of poetry on a panel with a Pole and a Turk. It’s worth

We were smoking some of this knock… Operation Memory was announced. T… Each soldier went, counting backwa… With a needle in his arm. And the… Of a recession, in the middle of a…

He woke up in New York City on V… Speeding. The body in the booth n… Was gone. He had bought her a swe… Said her life wasn’t working he lo… You’re all bent out of shape, accu…

for Aaron Fogel Politically-correct personal computers point and click. President Clinton

The sky is crumbling into millions… the wind blows in my face so I duck into my favorite barber… and listen to Vivaldi and look in… reflecting the shopfront windows,…

As I sit at my desk wishing I did not have to edit a book on poetry and painting a subject that fascinates me usually, but today is not as

What is it about the Abyss that tempts the young poet to kiss the air and head for the nearest c… unreasonable attachment to the bli… of falling—what accounts for it? U…

No two are identical though they begin from the same point in time the same point in the dream when the radio shuts itself off in the middle of

Christmas defeated Chanukah once again last night by a margin of three billion dolla… or so, but every time I hear a Yiddish word like bupkes

There comes a time in every man’s… when he thinks: I have never had a… original thought in my life including this one & therefore… eliminate all ideas from my poems

The shrink says, “Everything depe… on how many stuffed animals you ha… as a boy,” and my mother tells me… father was left-handed and so is m… and they’re both named Joe whose f…

My bag was missing at the airport “Just one bag?” “Yes, but it mean… I had seen the bartender before, b… “You didn’t tell me you had been t… “Yes, I was at Magdalen College…

I was about to be mugged by a man with a chain so angry he growled at the Lincoln Center subway stat… when out of nowhere appeared a tal… chubby-faced Hasidic Jew with pey…