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Found in Translation (part iii) [by Moira Egan]
[big round building in the neighborhood. I confess to endless fascination with how its appearance changes in various lights] Before I say anything else today, I want to thank David and Stacey for inviting…
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Fun storming the castle [by Moira Egan]
[Civitella Ranieri: “the front lawn”] “It’s the place where they set you back down after you’ve been taken up in the Rapture,” Sarah the English novelist said when I asked her how she was…
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Maureen Owen: Talisman and magic [by Ken Tucker]
Yesterday I bought a copy of Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics—the Fall 2007 issue, is it the latest one? Who knows with poetry mags and who cares, really, when good journals…
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Two Versions of a Marianne Moore Poem
Here are two versions of "The Past is the Present" by baseball fan Marianne Moore. The first version is the one that I used for The Oxford Book of American Poetry. The second version…
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Rare Stamps in Black Movies
Everyone who has seen Charade, the Cary Grant & Audrey Hepburn thriller directed by Stanley Donen, knows the vital role that rare and valuable stamps play in that mystery. Can you name another crime-centered…
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Political Applause Lines [by Bob Kerrey]
Bob Kerrey, president of the New School, has analyzed the structure of effective political applause lines: Reagan in a "debate" saying that he wouldn’t hold Mondale’s youth against him; Lloyd Bentsen telling Dan Quayle…
