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Our Vegetable Love
photo (c) Stacey Lehman To His Coy Mistress Andrew Marvell, 1621 – 1678 Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way…
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Circling (by Karen Steinmetz)
Mountains and Lake by Georgia O'Keefe On a visit to Shelter Island last summer, I discovered Black Cat Books, a treasure-trove of used books and a great place to get out of the midday…
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Burden of Dreams (by Karen Steinmetz)
I took the title “Burden of Dreams” from Les Blank’s film about the astounding lengths Werner Herzog and his crew went to in the filming of “Fitzcarraldo.” In order to make his documentary, Blank…
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Miracle at Nation: The joyful case of the caniche reclaimed & sanity saved [by Tracy Danison]
If you take a walk around out of doors and are attentive in Paris, you will see that lots of people seem to have dogs. Perhaps you might even have noticed myself…
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Bright Horse (by Karen Steinmetz)
Perhaps because I am a Sagittarius, the word “horsewoman” has always appealed to me. It embodies the unity between rider and horse when all is going well and sometimes even when the rider loses…
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We Have a Winner! [by David Lehman]
For the last fifteen weeks, we have worked on a sonnet — publicly, collaboratively, courtesy of the "Next Line, Please" feature on The American Scholar website. Here is the winning sonnet. We wrote he…
