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Whitman in Washington (Terence Winch)
For six years I worked in the old Patent Office Building in Washington, where the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery are located. The building began its service to the people in…
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Tanglewood (continued) [by Lloyd Schwartz]
(The story of my poems being set to music by the composition fellows at Tanglewood continues with some new wrinkles.) July 26, 2008: An Interlude Writing in the first installment of this…
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Tangled Web
Listeners to NPR and readers of the Boston Phoenix have long enjoyed and profited from Lloyd Schwartz’s music criticism, which won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1994. I personally am in his debt for…
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“I Like Americans” (by Ernest Hemingway)
Ernest Hemingway (Milan, 1918) I Like Americans I like Americans. They are so unlike Canadians. They do not take their policemen seriously. They come to Montreal to drink. Not to criticize. They claim they…
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Bring on the schmaltz! (by Mitch Sisskind)
I remember how Kenneth Koch used to say that if poetry isn’t as much fun or as exciting as something else, why bother with it? Why not spend your time on what really moves…
