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This just in . . . Huffington Post Inaugurates Poetry Reading Series
photo Paul Legault (c) Billy Merrell Poet Alina Gregorian writes to tell us that she's been asked to curate a weekly poetry reading series for the Huffington Post. The first video, featuring poet…
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Kill Your Darlings, Trade Melo [by Catherine Woodard]
“Kill your darlings” is a common command in creative writing classes. William Faulkner (1897-1962) usually gets the credit; sometimes Mark Twain (1835-1919) is mentioned. Regardless who said it first, it’s a savvy way to…
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Lingering Loss [by Catherine Woodard]
Loss must linger on the minds of the 28 NBA teams not on the court last night when the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Miami Heat in the first game of the championship series.…
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The Volatility Index (“volatility being the square root of variance”) [by DL and friend]
We asked our friend on Wall Street to make a summer forecast and to explain a term we're hearing a lot on the news these days: the "volatility index," or the "VIX." Here's the…
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Elliott Carter is 103 and Going Strong [by DL]
From a recent interview with composer Elliott Carter, 103, who had a world premiere last weekend. Carter, who says he is reading Balzac in French on his Kindle, airs thoughts (or recollections) about Hitler,…
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An Ode to Magic [by Catherine Woodard]
Basketball poems bugged Quincy Troupe for a long time, particularly his own. No poem he’d ever read – or written – captured the speed of basketball, until he wrote an ode to Earvin "Magic" Johnson…
