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Overheard: 14th Street & University Place
He #1: So, what discipline do you look for when you hire? He #2: English. I mean, a good English major. They'll write good code, code that you can understand. They'll include lots of…
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More NaPoWriMo Poems, Day #11
Ahoy, scribblers! I'll be posting more NaPoWriMo poems this month—when the spirit moves me. And on Day #11, color me moved. Today's prompt: "Write a poem of the five senses." December 30 At 1:03…
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On Reading, Part I: Reading for Writers (by Jenny Factor)
I have this Magellan-esq idea about reading that I want to explore today… In my experience, reading (for a writer) is something like an opera singer's scales, a kind of preparation of the whole…
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Stephen Crane: American Poet (by Jenny Factor)
Today is the opening day for millions of baseball fans–including me. (This poet cheers for the Dodgers.) Another fan of baseball, Stephen Crane (b. 1891 in New York, and shown above as a Syracuse…
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“This live, throbbing age . . . ” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If there's room for poets in this world . . . Their sole work is to represent the age, Their age, not Charlemagne's – this live, throbbing age, That brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires,…
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Beach Weather & Beware (by Jenny Factor)
On April 16, we mark the 53rd anniversary of the publication of William Strunk Jr. and E.B.White’s The Elements of Style–truly the classiest of forays into the nays and naughts, and ayes and oughts…
