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Autumn Song [by W. H. Auden]
Fairfield Porter "Autumn Morning" 1949 Now the leaves are falling fast,Nurse's flowers will not last,Nurses to their graves are gone,But the prams go rolling on. Whispering neighbours left and rightDaunt us from our true…
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Creativity is Not a Microwave- by Alexandra Zelman-Doring
Nothing moves, but everything changes. “Hold the ball in your hand. Now, without changing your grip, allow it to be there. Did you move your muscles? Don’t. Without moving. Hold it. Now allow it…
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‘I Feel A Bit Like A Spy’: NPR’s Q&A With David Lehman
photo (c) John Tranter (Ed note: In a year that included publication of The Best of the Best American Poetry and The Best American Poetry 2013, David Lehman has also published his New and…
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Fire Up Your Kindle for Ming Holden’s “The Survival Girls”
We first met Ming Holden in 2008, during a visit to Mongolia. At the time, Ming, a graduate of Brown University, was a Luce Scholar working on establishing a PEN chapter for Mongolian writers.…
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“Private Eye” [by Ron Horning]
For some reason I think Ghirardelli Square is Aquatic Park and walk to the end of Columbus one Sunday off. Pretty bad, so it must have been a lot different when Spicer came here—…