American Gigolo (Paul Schrader, 1980)
A. Van Jordan
The shirts folded; the ties rolled; /
the suits hung in descending, mono- /
chromatic earth tones; shoes /
horned and shined; and the selection of the right / ...
Category:Guest Artists
The Mack (Michael Campus, 1973)
A. Van Jordan
Whether a little boy who grows /
into a pimp, or a young girl who / ...
Old Boy (Park Chan-Wook, 2003)
A. Van Jordan
If one rainy night you find yourself /
leaving a phone booth and you meet a man /
with a lavender umbrella, resist /
your curiosity to follow him, to seek / ...
Canyon
William John Bert
Just as Leah opens her mouth to tell him she’s pregnant, Russell says,
“There’s something blue down there.” The canyon rises to Leah’s left
and falls on her right. Without her glasses, it offers only immediate,
myopic pleasures—scrappy scrub brush,…
Cities: Paris
Kelly Davidson
Rock Parents
Kelly Davidson
Selected Poems
Bert Stern
AMERICA
There was a bird I liked,
its name was I don’t remember.
It skimmed the waves a day from shore.
My mother held my head up to the rail,
I was too sick to stand.
America, she said,
this…
The Test of the Bow and Others
Thomas O’Grady
Remembering Michael Coleman /
Before he faced the suitors in the hall, /
He proved himself by plucking high-strung gut /
Until it hummed a single note. So pure / ...