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Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl (by Laura Orem)
By now, most of the literary cosmos has either read for themselves or heard about Nobel Laureate V.S. Naipaul's comments in the Evening Standard that no woman writer is as good as he is.…
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Reach Into Your Pocket… by Eve Grubin
Like poetry, the Bible often leaves out important information. Character and plot description are kept to a minimum, and emotions are often hinted at but rarely stated directly. And both sometimes contain what seem…
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A Word that Contains Its Opposite by Eve Grubin
The speaker in Emily Dickinson’s poem, “A narrow fellow in the grass,” describes her response upon each time she meets a snake: …never met this fellow, /Attended or alone, /Without a tighter breathing,…
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Maugham in “The Razor’s Edge”
<< The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over; thus the wise say the path to Salvation is hard." — Katha-Upanishad >> Epigraph for The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
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Truth and Beauty vs. the Dominating “I” by Eve Grubin
If “Imagination is evidence of the Divine” then, as John Keats wrote in a letter, “What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.” When something beautiful captured Eve’s imagination, she knew it was…
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Poem for the Beginning of Summer
Silence by Marianne Moore My father used to say, “Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellow’s grave nor the glass flowers at Harvard. Self reliant like the cat – that…
