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Whom do you write your poems for? [by Katha Pollitt]
It’s easy to describe the readers I have in mind when I write my column in The Nation: the 185,000 Nation subscribers, who are mostly liberals, progressives and leftists of various sorts, college-educated, over thirty,…
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“Coat of Arms” [by Joanne Dominique Dwyer]
I don’t believe desire is the root of all suffering,though it’s better to pull up the rootsof the weeds you desire to be rid of,rather than poison them. For nothingwill grow again in that dirt.I never read philosophy. It hurtsthe…
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Squibs 322-326 [by Alan Ziegler]
322: Footnote to “A Note on Memory in ‘On the Road with Phil Freshman’ When I visited the former boarding house known as Dixieland in Look Homeward Angel—now officially the Thomas Wolfe Memorial—I took…
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For Summer: Florida Poets: Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello [by Emma Trelles]
in the shadow, federico carosio iii Driving Down Old Cutler Road for Guillermoby Marci Calabretta Cancio-BelloBanyans arch across the road,all…
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Squib 321: A Note on Memory in “On the Road with Phil Freshman” [by Alan Ziegler]
[click for On the Road with Phil Freshman] Lauren Gravitz writes that autobiographical memories “begin to take lasting form in a part of the brain called the hippocampus…Neurons…
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The Mets Weekend Wasted Away [by Greg Pattenaude]
After the Mets completed a three game sweep of the Indians, I was excited for a huge series against the National League East's leading team, the Atlanta Braves. The Mets were nine games back…
