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Next Line, Please: 2 new prompts on “The American Scholar”
Above the River of Your Longing Two new prompts By David Lehman | January 16, 2025 Kudos, all! Our last “Next Line, Please” elicited 88 comments. The most popular of the three prompts I offered in that…
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“Here We Go Again” by LA Poet, Rick Bursky [by Nin Andrews]
I keep thinking about the LA fires. Today is the first day I woke up and didn't see the fires at the top of my newsfeed. I hope that's a good sign. I've been…
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‘Hiccoughs’ and ‘Angelica’: Two newly discovered poems by Virginia Woolf [in the TLS]
In the current issue of the TLS (London's Times Literary Supplement), thewre is news tat will delight fans of Vuirginia Woolf: ‘Hiccoughs’ and ‘Angelica’ ‘Hiccoughs’ and ‘Angelica’: Two newly discovered poems by Virginia…
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“Blue-Collar Millionaire Athletes” [a word note by David Lehman]
When the literal meaning of a word disappears entirely into its figurative sense, it may become a dead metaphor or a journalistic cliché but may nevertheless be celebrated because it so aptly illustrates the…
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Saul Bellow and Günter Grass Duke It Out at the PEN Congress [by Edwin McDowell, New York Times, January 15, 1986]
After reading this account of an acrimonioius session of the PEN Writers' Congress n New York City in January 1986, sip a Manhattan and guess which famous participant turned out to be a forgetful…
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On memory and remembrance in contemporary dance: Restart the present, wonder about it, and – Why not? – revive it [By Tracy Danison]
“iLaUNA” by Bilaka. Photo © Charlotte Costa There’s a fin de siècle schadenfreude in our air du temps. YouTube spiritualists see souls fleeing the coming travails of those still earthbound. But the frisson that comes…
