An American sentence: If Christ was born on Christmas, his circumcision was held on New Year’s. What’s an ‘American Sentence’? Allen Ginsberg, inventor of the American Sentence, felt that the haiku didn’t work as well in English. Ginsberg decided to remove the line structure of the haiku, maintaining the requirement of 17 syllables total. He […]

The Baby Jesus, or: Yeshu haTinok