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Miracle at Nation: The joyful case of the caniche reclaimed & sanity saved [by Tracy Danison]
If you take a walk around out of doors and are attentive in Paris, you will see that lots of people seem to have dogs. Perhaps you might even have noticed myself…
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Bright Horse (by Karen Steinmetz)
Perhaps because I am a Sagittarius, the word “horsewoman” has always appealed to me. It embodies the unity between rider and horse when all is going well and sometimes even when the rider loses…
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We Have a Winner! [by David Lehman]
For the last fifteen weeks, we have worked on a sonnet — publicly, collaboratively, courtesy of the "Next Line, Please" feature on The American Scholar website. Here is the winning sonnet. We wrote he…
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A Silver Scruple and a Famous Dog (by Karen Steinmetz)
Emily Dickinson’s beloved Newfoundland Carlo does not appear often in her poems, but it is Carlo Dickinson refers to most often as her great companion in her letters…
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Dog Dreams (by Karen Steinmetz)
Since it is mid-January, pouring rain, and I find myself writing about dogs as familiars and about their inevitable loss, I begin with a refrain from “Dog Dreams,” a sardonic song by Jonatha Brooke…
