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A Little Tribute to the Bee [Sara Eliza Johnson]
Electron micrograph of the honeybee. Credit: Annie Cavanagh. Source: wordlesstech.com When I was a graduate student living in Oregon, a colony of bees built a hive in the wall of my garage apartment. I…
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The World is Too Much with Us [by William Wordsworth]
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid…
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Poetry & Inhumanity: “Anti-War Art: Nearly Impossible”? [Sara Eliza Johnson]
Deep in the midst of the most recent Israel-Palestine conflict, Noah Berlatksy asks over at The Atlantic if anti-war art is truly possible. His qualified answer is that it is not possible—or is "nearly…
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Next Line, Please: This Week’s Haiku, Next Week’s Tanka by David Lehman
Last week the American Scholar continued its Next Line, Please contest with an invitation to readers to submit their best haiku. Here's what David Lehman has to say about this week's winning haiku and…
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Behind the Blue Door [by Charles Coe]
During a recent drive along the Maine coast, I saw a strange-looking building that looked like a giant blue bowl turned upside down. I got closer to see white lettering on the side that…
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Poetry, Primordialism, & Post-Apocalypse [Sara Eliza Johnson]
Ascending eruption cloud from Redoubt Volcano. Photograph by R. Clucas. Emily Dickinson wrote to T.W. Higginson in 1862: I cannot rule myself, and when I try to organize—my little Force explodes—and leaves me bare…
