poetry

The second part in a series of chats with Calvin Trillin, the man who—among many other things—casts the U.S. presidential campaign in iambic pentameter. Discussed: the Republican and Democratic Conventions, how Barry Goldwater would be to the left of today's GOP, Tom Lehrer, satire on television, and what's so good about The Daily Show.

A consideration of what it means to be "clothing neutral," or dressing to be invisible, leads to the poetry of Sonnet L'Abbé and the realization that so many dress codes have one thing in common—a fear of the female ass.

Antigonick—poet Anne Carson's version of Sophocles' tragedy Antigone—may provide lessons for disheartened Torontonians.

The first in a series of chats with Calvin Trillin, the man who—among many other things—casts the U.S. presidential campaign in iambic pentameter.