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Much Depends on Dinner: Cooking with Shaindel Beers
Here's our second post in what I hope will be an ongoing series featuring writers who cook. If you would like to contribute, please send me an e-mail at [email protected]. Shaindel Beers and I…
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Watching Students Eat
Gone are the great public events of the last days—Halloween, the Marathon, the election, the World Series. The great crowds they drew have dissipated. The prosy days of mundanity return. For a glimpse of ordinary…
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Wanted: A Poet for 11/3/09 [by Catharine Stimpson]
I long for a poet who can beat out some stanzas about November 3, 2009, in the United States, the day of an off-year, off-kilter election. Some clumps and clusters of citizens went to…
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A Bleacher of One’s Own [by Catharine Stimpson]
My neighbor in the elevator was giddy with excitement on Monday, November 2. He was on his way to Philadelphia. His family had tickets for the 5th game of the World Series between the…
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Black Bart, Po8 (by Laura Orem)
On August 3. 1877, a stagecoach was held up at gunpoint while traveling from Port Arena to Duncan's Mills, California, by a man disguised by rags and cloths covering his head and body. He…
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Good for you, Jude [by Catharine Stimpson]
I had vowed to stay away from Hamlet, especially productions that starred celebrity actors but stuck to tried-and-true stagings. I was tired of knowing what was going to happen–be it poetry or sword-fights—before…
