The Millennial Pedestrian

“Glory be to God for breaded things –”

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At last! A comprehensive guide to the best places to eat in my new home town, Providence, RI. It’s a great city for dining and one that has sadly been withoout an up-to-date, comprehensive restaurant guide for about five years. Now, thanks to a year of dedicated research, that yawning void has been filled.
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This little look back into adolescence by Bill Matthews appears in a new book called The Making of a Sonnet, edited by Edward Hirsch and Eavon Boland (Norton). Even if you never saw an NBA game with a date in the late ’50s, if you’re male, you can identify. And if you’re not, you can […]

“The Chief Defect of Henry King / Was chewing little bits of String…”

“Much of life / is Dutch”

“… It could mangle someone’s hand / In twenty seconds.”

“The clockwork spectacle is / Impressive in a slightly boring / Eighteenth-century way.”

Instead of a poem, TMP sends you very best wishes for Christmas, The New Year, and any and all other feasts and holidays you may celebrate as we round the bend from ‘07 into ‘08. May your new year be full of poetry, any old kind, any way you can get it; and may the […]

“…thundering Zhukov rolls toward death’s mansion.”

“Hair will become interesting. / Pain will become interesting.”