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The American Scholar “Next Line, Please”: So sorry you didn’t win! Please try again.
The American Scholar's "Next Line, Please" contest continues apace, with David Lehman crafting a new challenge each week. Lehman's "fake apology" contest of August 23 was among the most popular in the contest's years-long…
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Part II: Home Run [by Dean Smith]
The Orioles took Wee Willie Keeler’s advice last night and “hit them where they aint.” Adam Jones lifted a seeing-eye RBI single to centerfield that broke a scoreless tie and four home runs took…
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For Labor Day: “The Fee” [poem by Bill Zavatsky]
Portrait of John Keats by Joseph Severn Dear Author: We are preparing the definitive, illus- trated catalogue of our international exhibition, “Urns Around the World” for publication. May we, The State Education Department of…
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Part III: Pitcher’s Duel [by Dean Smith]
The essence of the rivalry between the Orioles and the Yankees revealed itself last night. Tense, cerebral, nail-biting, four-hour pitching duels have defined their contests over the past three decades. Add managers Buck Showalter…
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My boy sick in mind asked me why I wake
I wake in flooding sunlight, I said, a thousand impatient, tiny tongues Licking at shadows, lapping under wood. Along the lane. My lips are cracked and sore, my throat dry. I am tired. Almost…
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Meet the Press: Dante Di Stefano in Conversation with Michael Spooner of University Press of Colorado & Utah State University Press and Patricia Colleen Murphy, Author of Hemming Flames
DD: In her essay, “When We Dead Awaken,” Adrienne Rich writes: “For a poem to coalesce, for a character or an action to take shape, there has to be an imaginative transformation of reality…
