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The Year in Review: Goodbye WS; Hello to you in this dark evening season by Jennifer Michael Hecht (February 18, 2012)
Dear Bleaders, I’m sure lots of people reading this blog know we lost a staggeringly great poet, Wisława Szymborska, a few weeks ago. It was Feb 1; she was 88. I can’t help giving…
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There Are No Words, and We Must Speak Them [by Stephanie Paterik]
“There are no words.” That phrase flooded my newsfeed in the minutes and hours after 20 children and six adults were murdered at a Connecticut elementary school yesterday. I understand the feeling. One of…
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The Year in Review: The Dogs are Howling, Allen by Laura Orem (February 14, 2012)
An Italian greyhound being "stacked" prior to a going-over by the judge. The 136rd Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is going on right now at Madison Square Garden. Purebred dogs of all shapes and…
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SURPRISED by joy–impatient as the Wind by William Wordsworth
I turned to share the transport–Oh! with whom But Thee, deep buried in the silent tomb, That spot which no vicissitude can find? Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind– But how could…
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A Mother’s Lament for her Son’s Death by Robert Burns
Fate gave the word, the arrow sped, And pierc'd my darling's heart; And with him all the joys are fled Life can to me impart. By cruel hands the sapling drops, In dust dishonour'd…
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The Year in Review: The Other Latin@: A Q & A with Blas Falconer by Emma Trelles (April 12, 2012)
The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity is an anthology of 20 essays that, according to its co-editor Blas Falconer, aims to counter a narrow perspective of Latino/a writers and honor their diversity. In…
