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  • Back at the Ballpark [by Greg Pattenaude]

    June 28, 2021

    With Covid seating restrictions lifted and life attempting to get back to normal, it was time to visit a ballpark.  On Saturday June 26, I did just that as the Mets hosted the Phillies…

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  • Who is Edna??? I am in love. [by Stacey Lehman]

    June 28, 2021

              View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by Edna (@ednaschoice)

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  • Bob Hicok: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    June 27, 2021

    __________________________________________________________________________________________ The Order of Things   Then I stopped hearing from you. Then I thought I was Beethoven's cochlear implant. Then I listened to deafness. Then I tacked a whisper to the bulletin board.…

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  • Quote of the Week: Fulke Greville

    June 26, 2021

      Aldous Huxley chose these lines of the English Renaissance poet Fulke Greville as the epigraph for the 1928 novel Point Counter Point:     Oh, wearisome condition of humanity!Borne under one Law, to…

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  • A Trip to “Tintern Abbey” [by David Lehman]

    June 25, 2021

    It is not difficult to see why some poets from Lord Byron to the present have resisted and sometimes even jeered at William Wordsworth (1770-1850). The refreshing heterodoxy of Wordsworth’s youthful verse gave way…

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  • Emily Dickinson 3 [by Mitch Sisskind]

    June 24, 2021

    As a word-lover she loved gamahuche,Gamahuching, will be (was) gamahuched,Or in a sentence: The bee gamahuched The flowers. She marveled at the beesEntering daffodils enveloped by sunlightRefracted through tender golden petals:Surely Solomon in all his…

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