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The Language of Old Magazines: Part One [by Amy Allara]
The next two posts pick up where I left off during a prior week as guest author. I once again dug out my old Etude magazines and once again was not disappointed. The language…
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Letters from London: Life in the Referendum #2
'Twas the night before Brexit, and all through the house… … we're not sure if we're waiting for Santa or Nosferatu. Tonight, everything is hushed. Where I'm sitting in northeast London there's a lightning storm…
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Letters from London: Life in the Referendum #1
The Day Before the Referendum Today is the day before the UK goes out to vote in a (thankfully) once-in-a-lifetime referendum on whether to leave the EU, or to remain in it. The atmosphere…
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Reporting from London: Katy Evans-Bush on the upcoming BREXIT vote!
We're focused on the upcoming BREXIT vote in the UK and are grateful that poet, teacher, all-around smart terrific writer Katy Evans-Bush will be reporting on the run-up and outcome. Katy Evans-Bush is a…
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Selves in Air: Part Three [by Amy Allara]
October 6, 1960 I have an awful lot to tell you, I think, and yet actually no news except the first item. Bishop writes this line to Lowell in 1960 in a letter that…
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Selves in Air: Part Two [by Amy Allara]
Please never stop writing me letters―they always manage to make me feel like my higher self (I've been re-reading Emerson) for several days. Bishop writes this to Lowell in 1960 after corresponding with him…