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Terese Svoboda, Guest Author April 8-12
This week we welcome Terese Svoboda as our guest author. Terese has published 18 books of fiction, poetry, memoir, biography, and a book of translation from the Nuer. Great American Desert, a book of…
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Notes on the Final Four: Redemption Song [by Dean Smith]
The Virginia Cavaliers will take the floor tonight against the Red Raiders of Texas Tech to battle for a national championship with last year’s colossal defeat exorcised from their psyches. Last March, they became…
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An Interview with Sally Ashton (by Nin Andrews)
NA: Congratulations on your new book, The Behavior of Clocks! I thought I'd start this interview by simply asking you to post the poem, "Time, Travels." Time, Travels Time and space are…
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Next Line, Please: A New Genre [by Virginia Valenzuela]
This week's post was inspired by our family names in a wholly new genre of poems: the trilogy. It's not quite as official as the sonnet, but its results just can't be beat. Eric…
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from “An Enemy of the People” [by Paul Berman]
People have been asking: since when, and for what reason, has Zionism become a dirty word? Paul Berman speculates on this question and reports on recent alarming events in France: <<<The Yellow Vest sidewalk…
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“Good Morning” [by Catherine Bowman]
Let's see what kind of company erotic keeps in the dictionary: Erotic. In the dictionary between Eros, the god of love, born from chaos. In between erose: having the margin irregularly incised or…
