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Revisiting Charles Willeford
Orange Noir You can read The Burnt Orange Heresy as either a murder mystery or a parable about the hoax element in modern art. Charles Willeford’s 1971 novel (which Carroll & Graf reissued…
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“Poetry is easy; it’s the parent-teacher conferences that are hard.”
Alicia Florrick, Season Finale, The Good Wife, May 25, 2010 Read Ken Tucker's take here.
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This just in . . . “Kitty Goes Postal”
Poet Sharon Mesmer sends us this dispatch about poetry in an unlikely place: How often does poetry make the front page of the Wall Street Journal? Poetry by LIVING poets, I mean? Say what…
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Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, How Does Your Garden Grow? (by Laura Orem)
Okay, here's the first installment of a season-long look at my vegetable garden. After a week of solid work (thank God for my nice neighbor with his tractor, who plowed up the sod for…
