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How Poetry Comes to Me by John Lane
When I was a young poet I used to work at poems sequentially and with great patience. I would write in the morning soon after waking. I don’t remember how the poems came to…
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You Can’t Go Home Again by John Lane
I’ve traveled a good deal—Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, Canada—but until China I’d never had the experience of measuring a place entirely against what I imagined about it from books. I don’t know why,…
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Mr. Pickle [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
We weren't doing shots, I swear, I was using the tall shot glasses to support Mr. Pickle's legs. Yesterday was his Birthday, in my mind, so his birthday is March 2, but we actually…
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Our Romance . . . with London [by Stacey Harwood]
We returned from London last night, exhausted but exhilarated after David's successful lecture and readings. He started at London's popular Jewish Book Week with a "conversation with musical illustrations" during which he was interviewed…
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Who is Amy Bishop [by Catharine R. Stimpson]
February 28, 2010– The figure of Amy Bishop haunts me. I fantasize covering her trial when it happens. “Who is she?” asked a graduate student and a law student earlier this week. The…
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Googling Bei Dao by John Lane
In January I traveled to China for a little over two weeks. I stayed mostly in Shanghai, studying “Tradition & Modernity” with 18 of my Wofford College colleagues. Our lodging was comfortable, a modern…
