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Next Line, Please: The Life of Words [by Virginia Valenzuela]
Anyone looking for a weekend treat? Because we've got one fresh from Next Line, Please! Dr. Lehman begins his column saying, "It can help the poet to think of language as a living thing…
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Poetry at Milltown State Park [by Tami Haaland]
On a chilly October afternoon a group of us met at Milltown State Park in western Montana. We stood above the Clark Fork River where we could see the Blackfoot River flow in from…
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Orange Noir: Charles Willeford’s Noir “Heresy” [by David Lehman]
You can read The Burnt Orange Heresy as either a murder mystery or a parable about the hoax element in modern art. Charles Willeford’s 1971 novel (Carroll & Graf) gives satisfaction on…
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Tom Lasorda on Frank Sinatra (happy birthday, Frank)
<<< Today is Frank Sinatra's birthday. We should all celebrate because he was a tremendous man who touched many, many lives. He did something for me that I never ever thought possible, and that…
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Orestes (by Mitch Sisskind)
Who then were the chiefs and the lords of the Danaans?I could not tell the multitude of them nor name them, not if I had ten tongues and ten mouths,not if I had a…
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Five Great Mystery Anthologies [by David Lehman]
A Catalogue of Crime By Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor Harper & Row, 1971 Say you want to read a novel by a prolific crime author such as Agatha Christie…
