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January Poems [by Nin Andrews]
I have a favorite kind of poem in January: origin poems, fables, midrash. After all, the first month of the year is the time to begin again. Or at least to imagine one can…
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“How Well Do You Know Your Hitchcock?” [by David Lehman]
from "How Well Do You Know Your Hitchcock? A Multiple-Choice Test for the Maestro’s Fans" By David Lehman | January 19, 2024 / in The American Scholar <<< Though he never won the Oscar for…
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Since Way Back When [by Michael Lally]
Since Way Back When Way back in the last centuryin 1992 when I was a mere 50I slipped in between the clean sheets of my bed and sighed:Thank you, thank you. As Ialways do,…
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Liberties of the Imagination: Poems by Joseph Harrison, commentary by Mary Jo Salter [part 5 of 5]
It’s my fifth and last day of presenting some of my favorite poems by Joseph Harrison. I can’t represent all of his signature themes or inspirations, but one of them is flight: there’s a…
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A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Pantheon [by Jim Cummins]
Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert thumb a ride in the 1934 rom-com "It Happened One Night" A while back I posted a piece about how “immortality” had nothing to do with the future, but…
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Dancing history, art and color to another state of mind [By Tracy Danison]
Aurélie Gandit, “Visite dansée, retable d’Isenheim”, Musée d’Unterlinden. Photo © Cie Callicarpa The retable d’Isenheim, the “Isenheim altarpiece”, is made up of three folded layers that open out to depict scenes of the…
