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To Donald Keene
To Donald Keene To Donald Keene weowe much of what we know ofJapan's verse and prose. In shadow of rising sunstood the lean tree unobserved. Then Keene could be heardin accents lucid and keenrendering…
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Rachel Barenblat, Guest Blogger October 17-23
This week we welcome Rachel Barenblat as our guest blogger. Rachel is a student in the ALEPH rabbinic program (though not for much longer; she will be ordained a rabbi in January of 2011)…
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Brian Clements Presents a Poem by Charles Kesler
A Traveling Monk Observes I have noticed in my travels that people do not put Kleenex out for guests. They do not even put out trash cans to put the Kleenex in that…
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Will the Fed (Ever) Raise Rates?
And Ben Bernanke spoke: "There would appear — all else being equal — to be a case for further action," This was widely taken to mean that the Fed will aggressively pursue a policy…
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Falling for Books in Booklyn [by Jane Lee]
We dress for the seasons, some of us eat with the seasons, but how many of us read with the seasons? My friend, the actor/personal trainer and self-described Pulitzer Prize winning reader Jane Lee…
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British Poets, Day Seven: The Go-Betweens [by Todd Swift]
It is a bright, sunny autumn day in London, with intermittent rain (English paradox), as I wrap up a week's blogging here, and the Prime Minister has personally intervened last night to defend military…
