Jan van Rijn, the celebrate bibliophile publisher, has a new book out, and it's about "Notre Dame des Fleurs", the mind-boggli...

Michael and his handsome alter ego, John W. King, started the Verse Repair Movement a month ago on Gay Flash Fiction , and they're up...

By Michael Ampersant (text) and Theo Blaze (art) Michael Ampersant had dreamed of using some poetry in THIS IS HEAVEN---one character...

Grandma got run over by a reindeer Walking home from our house Christmas eve You can say there's no such thing as Sant...

" Alles hängt mit allem zusammen ," (everything is connected with everything) would Norbert Elias say, the German sociologist an...

Our post Time for a really bad poem is an enormous success page-view wise (possibly due to the accompanying picture (reposted below)), so h...

...and repost our piece about his 18th sonnet: (So, it starts:) Since we are a literature blog now, we have to do serious stuff, like po...

Upfront update: This is really getting embarrassing folks---we're getting so many hits for this post, possibly because people think: ...

It's perhaps a minor issue, so give it perhaps a minor thought. What's wrong with this poem: A man is beautiful but you h...

We sometimes do poetry, right? So here goes: Monica Lewinski, former White House intern The Washington Post runs a weekly contest in ...

(lyrics) Et passent [pass], passent, passent, passent, passent, passent les jours [days (as in journal)], Et rien [nothing], non rie...

Since we are a literature blog now, we have to do serious stuff, like posting some serious pictures, like. Like this one... Tyson Beck...

"You need one of these," a friend writes and sends this picture:  "Perhaps you don't know," we write back, ...

Please take a picture of the cows...asked Jo on the phone. So here we are, with cows right on the little patch below the parking lot of the ...

 From dawn to dust,  It's such a lust,

Dirk Sch. sent us this charming picture, and it brings to mind the mysterious scriptwriter that we met the other day on the Croisette. You m...