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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: DECEMBER 28, 2022
Happy New Year, everyone! Here is a poem by Ted Kooser. YEAR'S END Now the seasons are closing their files on each of us, the heavy drawers full of certificates rolling back into…
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Quote of the Day: David Sedaris’s Advice to Oberlin College Grads
Choose one thing to be terribly, terribly offended by, this as opposed to the dozens or possibly hundreds that many of you are currently juggling. Stand up for what you believe in, as long…
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“A Message on the Machine” [by Tom Disch]
Hello Tom. The day has come round at last the day appointed for our meeting, the day you are to die and I decreed to be your executioner.So you must look your best.If…
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Have you ever seen the goddess dance? Dorothée Munyaneza does Radouan Mriziga’s “Akal” [by Tracy Danison]
Dancer, singer, choreographer Dorothée Munyaneza. Photo © Maya Mihindou Believe it or not, my critical skepticism evaporated when I saw the golden horns. A second before, Akal’s mythology is contrary to fact, its suppositions…
