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When Bad Lines Happen to Good Poems (redux)
A couple of weeks ago, David posted Shelley's astrological profile and in her comment, "Sharon" picked up on David's reference to an especially bad line in one of Shelley's poems. The exchange reminded me…
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Eleanor Goodman, Guest blogger August 15-21
This week we welcome Eleanor Goodman as our guest blogger. We had the good fortune to meet Eleanor during our travels in China a couple of years ago. At the time, she was living…
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Reb Livingston Presents a Poem by Cynthia Arrieu-King
Bird Studies Human Studies Bird "Birds don't sing, they explain. Only people sing."–Kenneth Koch Mary Smith sings about how birds can punish us,studies any in the context of diversion or patterns.Birds that count are…
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The late Lena Horne
Lena Horne, who died the day before Mother's Day this year, was as elegant a Brooklyn-born jazz singer as ever lit up the Cotton Club. She was elegant, sultry, and so pale-skinned she could…
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The Guessing Game (IV)
So you think you know history! Explain the significance of this front page. (BTW. . .The letter was sent to "the president of the republic." Which republic?)
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The Melancholy Certainty of Decline
". . . in art, a school once established normally deteriorates as it goes on. It achieves perfection in its kind with a startling burst of energy, a gesture too quick for the historian's…
