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Emerson on the poor and “the wicked dollar”
A powerful and perhaps surprising moment in Emerson's great "Self-Reliance":<<<Then again, do not tell me, as a good man did today, of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they…
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Committed to Memory — by Amy Glynn Greacen
Writers: how many poems do you have memorized? Did you set out to memorize them? Was it demanded of you by a teacher? Did you just read them so many times they became imprinted…
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Arthur Mitchell by Marianne Moore
Arthur Mitchell, right, with George Balanchine Arthur Mitchell Slim dragon-fly too rapid for the eye to cage, contagious gem of virtuositymake visible, mentality.Your jewels…
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Amy Glynn Greacen, Guest Blogger October 16 – 22
This week we welcome back Amy Glynn Greacen as our guest blogger. Amy grew up outside San Francisco. She holds degrees from Mount Holyoke College and Lancaster University, England. Her work has appeared in…
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Exile On Main Street [by Michael Schiavo]
Anything scares me, anything scares anyone but really after all considering how dangerous everything is nothing is really very frightening. Gertrude Stein
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Politics by Ralph Waldo Emerson [by Michael Schiavo]
Gold and iron are good To buy iron and gold; All earth’s fleece and food For their like are sold. Boded Merlin wise, Proved Napoleon great, — Nor kind nor coinage buys Aught above…
