Fred Johnston: With My Father on Broadway in the Rain
I wanted to be back in our hotel room
Looking out the single window from that height
Knowing I could not fall, that if all gave way I could always fly
Patricia A. Nugent: Healing Japan
I dreamed Peggy invited me to go to Japan with her. That’s all I remember, her asking me. I don’t know how I responded.
Rachel Hadas: 460 Riverside Drive
What ghostly messenger
was rattling away unseen
on the other side of the door?
Daniel Edward Moore: The Fire Island Boys
Warhol wasn’t the only one who loved
those Fire Island boys; marble statues
cloaked in sand, whipped by pleasure’s
summer storms.
Marco North: After the Circus Left Town
There is nothing like the righteous anger of a true New Yorker.
Origins of the police
Originally posted on Works in theory:
The Five Points district of lower Manhattan, painted by George Catlin in 1827. New York’s first free Black settlement, Five Points was also a…
Jose Padua: Fear and Whiskey
To the young actor between roles who was my supervisor at my temporary data entry job at Goldman Sachs, and who tried to make me get his coffee when … Continue reading
Video: Jews and Muslims March Together in New York
In New York, Jews and Muslims march together to protest the war in Palestine.
Djelloul Marbrook: The biggest tax swindle of them all
New York governor Andrew M. Cuomo has opened Pandora’s Box, and we would all be better off to finger the evils pouring out—if the press and the politicians had the … Continue reading →