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“A Song to a Child at Night-time” [Poem by Dylan Thomas, an @Ednaschoice Selection]
For your Sunday night insomnia: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Edna (@ednaschoice)
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Sinatra at the Sands, January 1966 [by David Lehman]
Ed. note: Jack Daniel's produced a limited-batch sour-mash whiskey called "Sinatra Century" to mark the singer's 100th birthday, December 12, 2015. Lehman's book Sinatra's Century: One Hundred Notes on the Man and His World was…
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“Dream of the Atlas Moth” [by Aspen Matis]
October. And the air earthy as the forearms of a folk hero. Atlas moths cling to the window screen, freeze their wings into sleep unknowable as the mind of an opponent soldier —…
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Ballet for Your Weekend [by Stacey Harwood Lehman]
Cynthia Gregory was one of the great prima ballerinas of the last century. I'd seen her American Ballet Theater performances countless times and the "after image" of her Odette-Odile in Swan Lake is indelible.…
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Winter, “with all its tits in the right bra cup” [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Have we considered that Shakespeare’s sonnet “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” was written for a winter’s day? It depends what one calls lovely and what kind of temperament you woke up hoping…
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Reading Milosz with Robert Hass [by Mindy Aloff]
“Reading Miłosz: The Short Course” Six winter 2022 Thursdays to consider the poetry of Czesław Miłosz (1911-2004), Lithuanian-born poet, novelist, lawyer, diplomat, Berkeley professor of Slavic languages, and Nobelist. Guide: Robert Hass, poet, teacher,…
