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  • A Red Hot Pepper of Love [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]

    August 13, 2011

    Dear Bleaders, Yes, I'm still here. My block broke off Brooklyn and fell into the ocean so we have been sailing for months in the squall so that is why I've seemed so quiet.…

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  • The Residence of Poetry, Part 2 [by Jessica Garratt]

    August 12, 2011

    So, as I mentioned, I have done a couple of writing residencies of the more “typical” sort (i.e., a bunch of artists living together in a beautiful place, being fed regularly and generally looked…

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  • The Residence of Poetry, Part I [by Jessica Garratt]

    August 11, 2011

    In just a few weeks, I’m hopping in the car and heading west again. I seem to creep a little further each time. Missouri, Kansas, and now Fort Collins, Colorado, where I will finally…

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  • Luck, Be a Lady Tonight

    August 11, 2011

    Luck  if you've ever been  a lady to begin with Luck be a lady tonight

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  • “O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark. . .”

    August 10, 2011

    They may be rioting in London, Bristol, Manchester, Birmingham, rioting and looting and setting stores on fire, burning cars, smashing windows, as if these venerable law-abiding cities were as combustible as Newark or Detroit…

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  • On Being Earnest, Georgian-style [by Jessica Garratt]

    August 10, 2011

                                       Yesterday I wrote in part about travel, and I want to continue in that vein for today’s…

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