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This Just In . . . . News From Turkey
Our friend Anastasia Ashman writes from Turkey about novelist Elif Shafak who has embarked on a US tour to promote her latest novel, The Forty Rules of Love , in which an unhappy housewife is…
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Night Owls and Early Risers [by John Lane]
Has anyone done research on the differences between poets (or anyone else) who get up early and those who stay up late? A friend of mine once gave me advice that’s worked for me:…
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Where the Wild Things Are
photo (c) Anne Caston Back in January we posted poet Anne Caston's wonderful photo essays from her recent trip to Alaska, where she's is a member of the core faculty in the University of…
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How Poetry Comes to Me by John Lane
When I was a young poet I used to work at poems sequentially and with great patience. I would write in the morning soon after waking. I don’t remember how the poems came to…
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You Can’t Go Home Again by John Lane
I’ve traveled a good deal—Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, Canada—but until China I’d never had the experience of measuring a place entirely against what I imagined about it from books. I don’t know why,…
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Mr. Pickle [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
We weren't doing shots, I swear, I was using the tall shot glasses to support Mr. Pickle's legs. Yesterday was his Birthday, in my mind, so his birthday is March 2, but we actually…
