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Hiking Notes #1: “Speech into Speechlessness” [by Cassandra Cleghorn]
[Note: This is a reposting of my blog originally posted on July 8th, which I then accidentally deleted. CJC] Every July, I head back into the classroom to teach in a one-month immersion…
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“A Bird, came down the Walk” [by Emily Dickinson]
A Bird, came down the Walk - He did not know I saw – He bit an Angle Worm in halves And ate the fellow, raw, And then, he drank a Dew…
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Hiking Notes #5: the Red Pine Grove [by Cassandra Cleghorn]
A few days ago (Hiking Notes #2/July 9), I told the story of surviving the swamp lettuce. Today, I'm going back to the trail where I picked the toxic salad: the Frost Trail, which…
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PoetsArtists: Painting the Figure Now [by Didi Menendez]
View in Browser PAINTING THE FIGURE NOW Please join us at the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art for the Opening Ceremony July 11, 2019 from 6 to 8 PM PAINTING THE FIGURE…
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On the Act of Blaming [by Lionel Trilling]
<<<He [Scott Fitzgerald] really had but little impulse to blame, which is the more remarkable because our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.…
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Indran Amirthanayagam—Poetic Globalist (Terence Winch)
Indran Amirthanayagam is one of the most remarkable figures roaming the contemporary poetic landscape. Like some of the poets he most admires—Cavafy, Neruda, Hikmet (all mentioned in the poem below)—he is a citizen of…
