NEW PALTZ, NEW PALTZ to the poet's friends and

to the poet's friends and lovers in gay bars and bedrooms--form a cast of characters capable of addressing desire

From NMB: The term “closet drama” has been used to describe poetic plays that are meant to be read on the page

Marilyn Hacker praises Gafori’s new translations of Rumi as “the work of someone who is at once an acute and enamored reader of the original Farsi text

Claire-Louise Bennett’s debut began to attract attention well beyond the expectations of the tiny Irish press that published it

Let's Become Fungal

NEW PALTZ, NEW PALTZ to the poet's friends andFrom the press: I thanked the man and left the store and confetti fell slowly inside my heart. Ben is adrift. A fact checker at a New York gossip magazine, he is well versed in the breezy cruelty that makes the modern world go and yet hopelessly drawn to the wonders that world continues to turn up. The hypnotic asymmetry of escalators. A perfectly chilled water fountain. The essential freedom of dogs. Into the stream of this private joy steps a young