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Fine points of law. . .
Fine points of legal argumentation do not prove absorbing for most writers, though we can all think of greatly gifted poets and novelists who studied the law and made it their profession. Still, as…
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“Poetry and Collage” (by Laura Orem)
As a poet and mixed-media artist, I've been mulling over the connection between poetry and collage. So many poets also work in collage/mixed media (Joe Brainard, Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Star Black, David Lehman…
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I missed you. . .
Sonnet 97 How like a winter hath my absence beenFrom thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!What old December's bareness everywhere! And yet this time removed…
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Bob Dylan On the Watchtower (by Lawrence J. Epstein)
In "All Along the Watchtower," Bob Dylan envisions America's decline and accepts the role of warning people about it. The song opens with Dylan having a conversation with two parts of his self. The…
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Saved vs. Damned Redux, Redux [by Jim Cummins]
Sometimes considering sheer numbers can be overwhelming; I wonder how that affects our attempts to criticize each other's work. I was watching some show on PBS recently, where the ratio of high school graduates…
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Mike Tyson & Oscar Wilde (Terence Winch)
Released in the spring of 2009, James Toback’s documentary Tyson features former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson alone, sitting in a chair, talking into the camera, and as such seems as much about language as anything…
