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H. L. Hix – Guest Blogger December 7-13 And Other News
This week we welcome H. L. Hix as our guest blogger. Hix teaches creative writing in the MFA at the University of Wyoming. His poetry collections include Legible Heavens (Etruscan Press, 2008), God Bless,…
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Judith Hall Presents a Poem by Mong-Lan
BANGKOK [neon lights] O the orchids of Bangkok! O the luxuriant ladyboys, their devilish seductive smilesO the decadence, the freedoms of Bangkok!your serpentine waysinto another unawares our embrace defined night-daysone thinks in embraces young…
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Holiday book suggestions [by Ken Tucker]
Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master by Michael Sragow (Pantheon)The man who directed both Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz (along with Red Dust, Captains Courageous, and 40-some other films) has,…
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In Praise of Cranberries [Catharine R. Stimpson]
Praise cranberries as one tough fruit. Boil them up for a sauce. Their skins pop. The nub of the berry endures. Transform them into a smooth cylinder of jelly. The single berry vanishes. The acidic and astringent taste persist. Put…
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Can you tell a hawk from a handsaw?
For ten points, name the movie, the actors, the director, the year, and the exact source of the title.
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Notes on Mark Van Doren’s “Shakespeare” [by Ben Donenberg]
On the new edition of Mark Van Doren’s Shakespeare (New York Review Books, 2005), Ben Donenberg, artistic director of Shakespeare Festival / LA, files these notes: 1.While thumbing through a book on Zen gardening, I…
