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“On Bedtime and Books” [by Victoria Kelly]
For three years, before I had my own children, I was a Court Appointed Special Advocate to two little girls living in the foster care system. As a CASA, I visited these girls weekly—at…
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“General Strike” [by Jim Dolot]
And balagan and Milosz on jstor.Certainly Danny Kaye was The Court Jester. “This day” (Darwin wrote) “I shot me a condor.”Who manages to say no to being quaestor? And in Jerusalem, what is the…
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Reading and Rereading “One Tree” by Philip Metres (by Nin Andrews)
In the fall of 2019, I was at a The Lit Youngstown Literary Conference in Youngstown, Ohio (amazing how long ago that seems now) when I heard Philip Metres read his poem, “One…
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Auden (& Others) on the Difference between Authors and Critics
There are people who are too intelligent to become authors, but they do not become critics. — W. H. Auden, "Reading" (in The Dyer's Hand, 1962) Compare with Kenneth Tynan's: "The critic knows the…
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A Tommy Lasorda Pep Talk, circa 1985 [by David Lehman]
In 1985 the Dodger skipper Tommy Lasorda — who died a few days ago at age 93 — turned the team's season around when he switched Pedro Guerrero from third base to left field…
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William Waltz presents a prose poem by Sarah Manguso
Although I’ve been urged, now and then, to go there, I’ve never been to Hell. A good Minnesotan might say, “I hear it’s nice there in the winter.” They say war is Hell, and…
