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The Second Person [by Kate Angus]
Lately I’ve been thinking about the multiple ways writers use the second person; how, depending on the situation, the “you” functions as an address to a specific other, to the unknown reader or readers,…
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The Brick Wall [by Jina Song]
Today, sister and I visitedan apartment for viewing.Smaller than my lungs, itfelt like a fragment of a rockamong rocks scattered in the sand.I was unable to ask for moreof other kinds, and my sisterstood…
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Placa del Diamant and Catalan History [by Sharon Dolin]
La Colometa (The Little Dove) by Xavier Medina Campeny Taking a coffee in the Placa del Diamant in Gracia, a neighborhood of Barcelona that used to be a separate village, I am struck by…
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Mentorship [by Kate Angus]
When Odysseus sets sail for the Trojan War, he places his infant son under his friend Mentor’s protection. During Odysseus’s long absence, Mentor guides Telemachus into adulthood–sometime through his own sage advice and companionship;…
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Cast down this die . . . Next Line Please: The American Scholar’s Crowd Sourced Sonnet Line Six
On Tuesday, May 6, The American Scholar launched a website experiment in writing crowd-sourced poetry—in this case, a sonnet. David Lehman wrote the first line and selects subsequent lines from among those submitted by…
