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  • More Questions [by Nin Andrews]

    May 25, 2008

    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)

    May 24, 2008

    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]

    May 24, 2008

    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)

    May 24, 2008

    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)

    May 24, 2008

    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)

    May 22, 2008

    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…

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