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“Human Interest” [by Ernest Hilbert]
The Cyclops gets it in the eye, Goliath by God’s will, And now we think the little guy Will always get the kill. The nerdy girl will…
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Interior Decorating: Caroline Seebohm on the Late Alison Lurie
<<<Alison Lurie was very interested in English people, so when she met me on my arrival in Ithaca in the 1980s, she was nice to me. She liked the fact that I was a…
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Jennifer Clarvoe, Guest Author December 7-11
This week we welcome Jennifer Clarvoe as our guest author. Jennifer is the author of two books of poems, Invisible Tender and Counter-Amores. She is the recipient of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, the…
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Stravinsky: “I surround myself with obstacles. .”
Albert Gleizes, Portrait of Igor Stravinsky, 1914, Oil on canvas, 129.5 x 114.3 cm. Muséum of Modern Art Collection "My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have…
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Photographer Sarah Meunier lays bare quarantine in “le moment bizarre”
“Day 1” Quarantaine/Le Confinement mis à nu ©Sarah Meunier Ami entends-tu le vol noir des corbeaux sur nos plaines/… C'est nous qui brisons les barreaux des prisons / …Motivés, motivés/ Il faut rester motivés!/…
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“Dark Side of Time” [by Lewis Warsh, 9 Nov 1944 – 15 Nov 2020]
Dark Side of Time Time is the solution in which the livingand the dead confer—there’s no other place for usor them and there’s no other place to be(except where we are), putting our feet…