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  • Ten Miscellaneous Takes on Doubt [by Alan Ziegler]

    October 23, 2014

    Take One: Do you sometimes get an inkling to write, only to stop yourself by thinking, Nah, it won’t be any good? The bad news: There is no answer to “Will it be good?”…

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  • Good Dogs (To Mr. Joseph Stevens) by Charles Baudelaire tr. Joseph T. Shipley

    October 22, 2014

    5th Ave & 9th St., October 22, 2014 (photo by Stacey Harwood) Away with the academic muse! I have no business with that old prude. I invoke the familiar muse, the citizen, the boon…

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  • Plots and Sisters Part III [by M. J. Fitzgerald]

    October 22, 2014

    On the first visit to the Beinecke Library, I spent the few days I had in a rush of disorganized search rather than methodical research after I came across the headed paper that showed…

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  • The Plight of the Podium Negro [ by Charles Coe]

    October 21, 2014

    Pennsylvania Republican Governor Tom Corbett’s facing a tough battle for re-election; one poll has him trailing his Democratic challenger by up to 25 points. He’s had a particularly hard time attracting black voters, many…

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  • Plots and Sisters Part II [by M. J. Fitzgerald]

    October 21, 2014

    (Find Part I of this series here.) After I went to Springfield, and visited the Fitzgerald plot in Calvary cemetery, I re-read with a greater sense of a context, and with much closer attention,…

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  • Call for Submissions: The Inquisitive Eater

    October 20, 2014

      Consider the Lobster. © Anna Cypra Oliver 2014. Oil on canvas 18"x20". Submit Your Work To The Inquisitive Eater: New School Food Click here for more information   "It seems to me that…

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