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“Kubla Khan” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge — Great Poems of the World, episode 15, with David Lehman and Mitch Sisskind
Kubla Khan By Samuel Taylor Coleridge Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment. In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure-dome decree:Where Alph, the sacred river, ranThrough caverns measureless to man Down to a…
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Godwin’s Law [by Joe Lehman]
“As an online discussion or argument grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches.” So says Godwin's Law, coined by author Mike Godwin. It's like "six degrees of separation" applied…
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“In Reprise: Next Line, Please” — 3 new prompts
<<< Last month, I announced the return of my “Next Line, Please,” column, which ran on The American Scholar's web site from May 2014 to September 2019. In that first reprise (read it here),…
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Mary Jo Bang: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
____________________________________________________________________________ A Film in Which I Play Everyone In scene two, silence is a sleeve, I’m an arm in it. In an outdated Hollywood magazine, I found a photo of someone…
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On Hoagy Carmichael’s Birthday: The Best Years of Our Lives
Dana Andrews ("Fred") left, and Teresa Wright ("Peggy"), steering the wheel, in The Best Years of Our Lives. Born today (November 22), Hoagy Carmichael plays the wounded sailor's Uncle Butch, the piano player who…
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Patriotism (after Mishima) [by Mitch Sisskind]
Okay, the people of Westhaven were angry that the presidential election would get rigged against R.L. Greene. R.L. Greene himself often said how an election is a right of free speech and interfering with…
