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Gestalt and the Redwood (by Amy Glynn Greacen)
True fact: the whole is equal to more than the sum of its parts. Speaking of getting around, when I have guests from out of town, especially if they happen never to have been…
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Congratulations Robert P. Baird
We've just learned that guest blogger Robert P. Baird's post Spend it All (January 13, 2012) made the finals for the 3 Quarks Daily Arts & Literature prize. Read all about it here. You…
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What Nighthawks Says About Fiction (by Lawrence J. Epstein)
Seventy years ago Edward Hopper completed his masterpiece, a chilling painting that captured the reality and pain of human loneliness. (For the information completist, the painting was finished on January 21, 1942). Nighthawks…
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Adultery and the Apple (by Amy Glynn Greacen)
Speaking of cycles and circles, the leaf buds are breaking on my baby apple trees. Anyone who knows me probably knows I am an unreconstructed botany geek and a serious fruit fetishist. I allow…
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Symbol, and Song (by Amy Glynn Greacen)
Bear with me, guys – I cannot think straight. Thus the theme of circling and spiraling. Pop the Dramamine now. Though he isn’t always the first poet I think of if you ask me…
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Kevin Young’s “Grey Album”: Where Riff Meets Mashup
<<<The place everything has come to is where a new book of essays by the poet and professor Kevin Young lives: in some great, grey area. The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness…