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Mentorship [by Kate Angus]
When Odysseus sets sail for the Trojan War, he places his infant son under his friend Mentor’s protection. During Odysseus’s long absence, Mentor guides Telemachus into adulthood–sometime through his own sage advice and companionship;…
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Cast down this die . . . Next Line Please: The American Scholar’s Crowd Sourced Sonnet Line Six
On Tuesday, May 6, The American Scholar launched a website experiment in writing crowd-sourced poetry—in this case, a sonnet. David Lehman wrote the first line and selects subsequent lines from among those submitted by…
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Barcelona, Catalan, and a Contemporary Catalan Poet [by Sharon Dolin]
Gemma Gorga I have been in Barcelona about two weeks, have watched spring transform from cool, sometimes rainy days, into warm days of bright sun and light past 9 each evening. I cam here…
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Secrets [by Kate Angus]
In my workshop, I often use a prompt where I pass out blank index cards and ask my students to–as quickly as possible–write down one of their secrets. The secret can be mundane (I…
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Judy Gemini could go on singing [by David Lehman]
Judy Garland: The Road Gets Rougher As a boy in Minnesota, Bob Dylan listened to a Minnesota girl sing the ballads of Harold Arlen and thought he could travel down the road taken…
