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Mitch Sisskind presents a poem by Shaindel Beers
I found the work of Shaindel Beers online. I was interested that she grew up in rural Indiana where once I was wont to roam. In the town of North Liberty a man asked…
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Daniel Cassidy: There’s a Sách úr Born Every Minute (Terence Winch)
Most visitors to this site share a common tool: the English language, which, as the authors of The Story of English wrote in 1986, “…has become the language of the planet, the first truly…
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More About Wool, or What Your Socks Never Told You (by Laura Orem)
Last week, I shared with you the pictures from shearing day. Today, I'd like to show you what happens to the wool after it's off the sheep. First, the fleece is "skirted." This means…
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Larceny at the Movies (by Larry Epstein)
Take the Money and Run and The Pink Panther. Raising Arizona and The Naked Gun. The history of criminal comedy films–comedies in which the protagonists are cops, gangsters, or thieves–goes back at least to…
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“Clouds” [by John Koethe]
Clouds I love the insulation of strange cities:Living in your head, the routines of homeBecoming more and more remote,Alone and floating through the streetsAs through the sky, anonymous and languagelessHere at the epicenter of…
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Keely Smith and Louis Prima Enter the Hall of Fame
I remember sitting in a Loews movie theater on 207th Street in 1957 or '58 watching a newsreel between pictures about buccaneers and Trojan Horses. The guys sitting next to us were talking Pig…
