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  • Every angel is terrifying . . . [by Amy Glynn Greacen]

    December 15, 2010

    Every angel is terrifying… Inspiration. An etymologically rich word deriving from the Latin inspirare, to blow or breathe into or out upon. To breathe life into something; to animate with "spirit," a vital essence.…

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  • Last Minute Contest with Prize! Deadline Midnight Saturday December 18, 2010

    December 15, 2010

    The 411:   Yesterday, while on the phone with my insurance company, I typed this as my Facebook status update: All of our representatives are assisting other callers at this time. Your call is…

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  • Whom do you write for? by Amy Glynn Greacen

    December 14, 2010

    As a frequent-flier at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference I’ve heard an incredible array of craft lectures delivered by a collective embarrassment of intellectual riches. They’ve rewritten my assumptions, thrown down gauntlets, touched off inspiration,…

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  • Vonlenska [by Amy Glynn Greacen]

    December 13, 2010

    For three-year-olds, repetition rules. Perhaps for my daughter Gigi it rules more intensely than for other children; I couldn’t say. But for the past three months, no one has been allowed to listen to…

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  • Brian Clements Presents a Poem by Ann Killough

    December 12, 2010

    Primary It’s as if I were lying down in the colonnade, in the Lincoln Memorial, in the forest where every tree is so, in the field where the dragon’s teeth were, where we sowed…

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  • Thank you, ladies and gentlemen,

    December 12, 2010

    The next songis by the great songwriting teamof Rodgers and Hart:“My Heart Stood Still”I first sang this lovely tune oh years agoway back before the war. Listen to this clown up frontWhich war he…

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