Fly By Night Press is proud to announce the publication of I Dream About You Baby, poems by Lester Afflick.
Book release Party July 19th 2008 4-5:30 pm @ The Bowery Poetry Club- Readers TBA
“The Inheritance of Loss” by Kiran Desai
Grove / Atlantic, 2006, 324 pages
$24.00
Review by Sarah Goodwin-Nguyen
Kiran Desai’s second novel (after Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard) earned high
accolades including a Booker Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award. The Inheritance of
Loss examines weighty sociological themes like colonialism, revolution, and immigration. To
do so, Desai shuttles readers back and […]
Installation view of Spider Couple, Untitled, and Untitled at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2008
© Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation New York
Photo by David Heald
“Goose-bumps”: Louise Bourgeois at the Guggenheim Museum in New York
June 27,2008 - September 28, 2008
Review by Peggy Cyphers
Louise Bourgeois’ Retrospective, currently on view at the Guggenheim Museum […]
Review by Rebecca Lossin
While living in an underwater dome is not something most Americans dream of past the age of five, “Buckminster Fuller: Starting With the Universe,” on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art, is much more than a nostalgic contemplation of unrealized utopia. Placing a dome over mid-town Manhattan to in order […]
The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen, Michael Rothenberg editor.
Wesleyan University Press, 2007. 871 pp.
Philip Whalen was the greatest American Zen Buddhist poet of his generation. But the poetry he wrote was never the kind of sappy, tranquil poetry that mostly passes for “spiritual” or new age poetry today. His is a kind of stream of consciousness, […]
Es difícil abarcar una novela como The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (algo así como La corta y fantástica vida de Oscar Wao) de Junot Diaz merecedora del Premio Pulitzer a la mejor novela de 2007.
El trabajo contiene muchos ingredientes literarios que derivan en géneros y subgéneros los cuales hacen que la narración […]
My Chippewa friend has Penobscot Nation messages
posted on her front door
left there by her lover who lived with her before.
I can’t say I was sorry to see him go
cause he didn’t know how to party
or hang with our jazzy gleeful flow
He would often scream and was kinda mean
thinking we weren’t in the know
his favorite saying […]
by Erich Christiansen
Back in March, I read at the 4th annual “Praise Bukowski” night at the Bowery Poetry Club. I did the poem I had rehearsed, “Something for the Touts, the Nuns, the Grocery Clerks, and You.” But in preparing earlier in the evening, I came across a sequence of poems that I […]
I. A Place Apart: A Brief History and Introduction:
In his poem entitled Journey to Iceland, W.H Auden says “Islands are places apart where Europe is absent/Are they? The world still is, the present, the lie” . Are we ever apart? Certainly, that is the paradox of travel: the more we personally […]
Every summer, Hollywood lights up the screen with the clash of heroes and villains. But this year, it seems there is a strange urgency. It was more than simple excitement at well-made movies — it felt like Hollywood was battling not our boredom, but our anxiety. For the past few years we’ve heard people suggesting […]
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Odilia Rivera Santos, the Puerto-Rican born boogie-down raised Harlem resident, will be singing new and old Latin standards with her three piece band. For a night of pure joy, join us at A Gathering of the Tribes on March 22nd from 7 to 9, $7.00 admission fee. Life is good; come enjoy it with me.
