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Sherman Alexie: Comedy Is Simply a Funny Way of Being Serious (Terence Winch)
[view from the staff break room at NMAI; photo by T. Winch] After making my living for many years as a musician and free-lance writer/editor, I got a job with the Smithsonian in 1985,…
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“Urban Myth” [by Jamey Dunham]
Paul Muldoon selected Jamey Dunham's prose poem "Urban Myth" for The Best American Poetry 2005. Urban Myth A couple awaiting the arrival of their first born delivers instead a ring-tailed lemur. They are…
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Rob Casper Presents a Poem by Paige Ackerson-Kiely
One cannot blog this weekend without referring to Independence Day. I thought of honoring the holiday by writing about patriotism, and how liberal thinkers should reclaim the term as a way to strive for…
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Ted Berrigan in Irish America (by Terence Winch)
I’ve played Irish music and written poetry for most of my life, but have generally kept these two worlds separate. A major exception to this practice took place at St. Mark’s Church in lower…
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Terence Winch, Guest Blogger July 5-11
This week we welcome Terence Winch as our guest blogger. Terence is the author, most recently, of a collection of poems entitled Boy Drinkers (Hanging Loose Press); in 2007, he released a CD of…
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Today in History
Lionel Mordechai Trilling was born on July 4, 1905. He was, for several reasons, the greatest professor I ever had, and the competition was stiff. Everyone who knew Trilling, from the time he was…
