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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…
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Next Line, Please: Enter Your Best August Haiku
The American Scholar today announced that its Next Line, Please contest will continue with David Lehman as judge. Contestants are invited to submit a haiku. Here's what David has to say about the form…
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The Poet Receives a Tool Box [by Janet R. Kirchheimer]
Teacher and philosopher Adin Steinsaltz writes in his book, My Rebbe, about a holy person, “…we see the connection with the beyond or hear it more in the spaces between sentences….As they speak we…
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Port and Poetry: C’est Formidable! [by Stacey Harwood]
I don't know when David and I first found our way to Frédéric Bouché's Ports of New York winery. It certainly wasn't during a tour of the many wineries around the Finger Lakes wine region.…
