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It Doesn’t Matter What We Meant and Evie Christie’s Mere Extinction are the latest contributions to a genre I’m calling GTA pastoral. Each offers lyric meditations on a gritty urban present populated by, in Christie’s words, “bare-knuckled bankers of King Street” and “meat-eating Annex Vegans” alongside nostalgia for a suburban past, filtered through a 21st-century middle-class outlook, in which as Winger puts it, “We can’t really move back / to the last subway station, can we?” Both collections demonstrate the enduring tenacity of the free-verse lyric as the default po...

 Foreword (March 4, 2021) It has already been 10 years since the terrorist assault on the Samarian Jewish settlement of Itamar in which a young family was caught unawares in their sleep and cut down in their prime by deviant Arab rivals. I am republishing part of this article in honor of the Jewish victims. On January 6, 2021, the day of, and incidentally, during the U.S. Capitol riots, (my TV and social media were turned off), I wrote some current thoughts of mine on the conflict between the Jewish so-called ‘settlers’ and the Sunni-majority Muslim Palestinians, as an afterword to the p...

Julie Phillips “S is for Susan who perished of fits”: Mark Dery offers the first major biography of Edward Gorey. Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey , by Mark Dery, Little, Brown, 503 pages, $35 •   •   • By his mid-twenties, the artist and illustrator Edward Gorey had already settled on his signature look: long fur coat, jeans, canvas high-tops, rings on all his fingers, and the full beard of a Victorian intellectual. His enigmatic illustrations of equally fur-coated and Firbankian men in parlors, long-skirted women, and hollow-eyed,...

Shelton poet shares personal prose about what shaped him in 'Tempest' Keith Loria FacebookTwitterEmail 2 1of2Shelton poet Ryan Meyer writes about the moments that shaped him in his new poetry collection "Tempest."Ryan Meyer / Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less 2of2"Tempest" will be published on March 1.Ryan Meyer / Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less Shelton native Ryan Meyer is releasing his second book of poetry, but the young writer admits that poetry wasn’t something he always had an interest in, though he did know he wanted to be a writer. “I started writing in high scho...

Courtesy of Potter & Potter The Quadrupeds of North America from 1854 is estimated at $3,500-5,000. Chicago — Potter & Potter Auctions is excited to announce its upcoming Fine Books and Manuscripts Sale to be held on Saturday, March 13th, starting at 10am, CDT. Given current regulations, this sale will be streamed live from Potter & Potter's gallery and held on www.potterauctions.com. Bids can be placed on the company's website. Phone and absentee bidding are available as well. All lots are available for preview now on Potter & Potter's website. Courtesy of Potter & Potter Remarkable antiqu...