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The Beautiful American Word, Sure
An alien crowd of nurses, residents, attending physicians, and machines and carts careened and hummed everywhere around his wife. If she had needed her husband during her labor,…
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Death of a Literary Magazine
It wasn't pretty. The decision was made by people who probably didn't read or look at it. It had been around for decades, surviving literary, cultural, cold, and military wars. It was killed by…
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On Twitter, “Terroir” and Feral Parakeets: An Interview with Don Share
Such serendipity! Just as Don Share begins his week of blogging here, an interview with him appears over at the terrific journal The Common. You can find it here. — sdh
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Gluttons for Poetry (by Don Share)
I've been amused – bemused, more accurately – by the continuing discussion, among American poets, of an apparent "glut" of poetry. Poetry must be one of the…
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Poetry makes nothing happen? Think again! [by Don Share]
I'm going to begin the week by reprising a piece a version of which I once ran on my own blog; it's the…
