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Molly Arden, Guest Blogger May 15-21
This week we welcome Molly Arden as our guest author. Molly enjoys writing poems while walking. She has led a peripatetic life — at various times she has lived in each of the New…
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Depressing quote of the day
Life is basically a rusty hubcap lying in a ditch on the side of the road, and life goes on. Stephen King "Herman Wouk is Still Alive" (the Atlantic, May 2011) — sdh
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Assignment 5 — Shannon Holman
God's dice always have a lucky roll. ~Sophocles, Fragments l, 763 To round out the week, let's play some dice. Your assignment is to fold several paper cubes (here's a pdf template, and here's…
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Assignment 4 — Shannon Holman
Every time I go to Myanmar*, my first stop is the Yangon book market, which consists of several "shops"—blankets spread on the thronged sidewalk—piled with hundreds of volumes, many of which are tattered English…
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Rachel and Mitch at McDonalds 5-12-2011
We've been going to McDonalds in the morning for the past few weeks. At this early hour I look even more like Pruneface than usual. I'm grateful to Rachel for being seen with me,…
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Andrew Marvell’s “Bermudas”
See Tom Clark's blog entry with Marvell's wonderful poem and some joyous photographs from Bermuda.
