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Poetry from Aotearoa/New Zealand 5 — Elizabeth Smither’s ‘The sea question’
The sea question The sea asks 'How is your life now?' It does so obliquely, changing colour. It is never the same…
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Lindsay Daigle Guest Author July 21-25
This week we welcome Lindsay Daigle as our guest author. Lindsay is a doctoral candidate in poetry at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, where she also teaches undergraduate writing and literature. She holds an…
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Sing to Me, O Muse (But Keep It Brief) by David Lehman in the New York Times Book Review
Maybe I dreamed it. Don Draper sips Canadian Club from a coffee mug on Craig Ferguson’s late-night talk show. “Are you on Twitter?” the host asks. “No,” Draper says. “I don’t” — he pauses…
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Croatian Vacation Photos [by John Lane]
I am a writer but on my desk-top computer I have about 20,000 photos. You do the math on what they say about every picture being worth a thousand words, or as Rod Stewart…
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South Dalmatia Island Sailing– from the Journal by John Lane
First Day By mid-morning we had left the harbor and motored into the narrows between the highway and low, hog-back hills pinching in from the starboard side. The shore was lined with black floating…
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Next Line Please: Twelve Down, Two to Go in the American Scholar’s Crowd-Sourced Sonnet
Line twelve is in the bag in The American Scholar's crowd-sourced sonnet, thanks to readers' clever contributions. David Lehman recognizes runners-up and now includes a winner's circle in his weekly posts. Suggest line thirteen…
