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He’s Back! The “Corn Dude” and Elaine Equi’s “Lesbian Corn” by Stacey Harwood
Here in New York’s Finger Lakes, corn season arrives late and leaves early. If you're like me, when you spot the first ears at a farmers market or roadside stand, you go a little…
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Language Becomes a Character [by Janet R. Kirchheimer]
Joseph Brodsky in his 1987 Nobel Lecture stated, “There are, as we know, three modes of cognition: analytical, intuitive, and the mode that was known to the biblical prophets: revelation. What distinguishes poetry from…
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No Strawberries in the Soup [by JB]
"When you have this menu for your guest's dinner, stick to the contents of each course as you serve it–no strawberries in the soup. . . . You must treat every topic once and…
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The Language of Poetry Meets the Language of Grant Writing [by Janet R. Kirchheimer]
Novelist and survivor Aharon Appelfeld stated, “After the death of the last witnesses, the remembrance of the Holocaust must not be entrusted to historians alone. Now comes the hour of artistic creation.” I am…
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Don’t Let Robin Williams’ Darkness Spread [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
(Ed note: Jennifer Michael Hecht, author of Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It has written extensively about suicide here. In this piece, published yesterday in the New York Daily News,…
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Gardens, Grammar and The Nature of Things [by Janet R. Kirchheimer]
When I started writing poetry, I was consumed by words. I had dreams, saw myself plucking them from the air. Poems were coming faster than I could write them down. The stories I heard from…
