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More Questions [by Nin Andrews]
More Questions Tell me, Love, who is your critic? And when? Do you know? Do you believe what he says? Or she? Me? Yes, until his back is turned, I do. I do. I…
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When the Banjo Stops (by Elizabeth Samet)
That’s when the trouble starts in Bonnie and Clyde. My students noted this when we watched the film a few weeks ago. When the banjo stops, bad things happen: “I killed a man back…
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Pantheismus, Pluralitas, Poetria [by Alexandra Zelman-Doring]
Brown University senior Alexandra Zelman-Doring, who won the annual Glascock Mount Holyoke last month, was inspired to write the following poem by the sight of the three judges crossing a foot bridge on the…
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Una mujer, Over There [in Madrid, to be exact] (by Kathleen Ignatius)
Una mujer, over there (In Madrid, to be exact) I don’t really understand blogs. I am a very old young person. My only other foray into blogging was a false start– http://allaboutmymadrid.blogspot.com/ Here in…
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Let’s call a duck a duck (by Mitch Sisskind)
It’s funny ain’t it how bigots can be pretty good writers? Dostoyevsky, Celene, and hey — let’s call a duck a duck — Hitler came up with some stuff too. So in my endless…
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Caution! Watch this video before you take a hallucinogenic enema (by Mitch Sisskind)
Do not take the hallucinogenic drug DMT anally until you’ve seen this clip! It goes on for quite a while but you’ll appreciate its content when you enter the psychedelic realm of ten billion…