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Walt Whitman’s “Reconciliation” [ by John Brehm]
At the height of the American Civil War, Walt Whitman spent three years visiting wounded and dying soldiers in the hospitals in and around Washington, D.C. He would bring them small gifts, whatever they…
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Maureen Owen: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
photo by Rachael Pongetti _________________________________________________________________________ Survival Song Don’t worry about me on latenight subways coming home down…
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“The Men We Marry, the Men We Fuck” [by Jill Alexander Essbaum]
This one kissed me beneath the stars.That one fondled me up the stairs. This one confessed his sins but to God.That one demanded his pity aloud. This one drove me to the store.That one…
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Talking Pictures: “The Counterfeit Traitor” with William Holden [by David Lehman]
Ed. note: For The American Scholar, I write a monthly column under the general title of "talking pictures" about movies worth seeing and talking about. Here are the opening paragraphs of my latest effort.…
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Meet the Press: Plan B Press and Alan King’s Crooked Smiling Light
Dante Di Stefano: The poems in Crooked Smiling Light meditate on complicated family relationships. What are the advantages and the challenges of foregrounding the domestic and the autobiographical in your writing? Alan King: The…
