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I Apologize for My Dreams by Jerry Williams
Some twenty years ago, I was living alone in an East Hollywood apartment (directly across the street from the world headquarters of the Church of Scientology). One night as I tried to sleep, somebody’s…
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Alister’s Riddle Sonnets by Jerry Williams
My friend and colleague, Alister Sanderson—professor, experimental filmmaker, and former creative director and senior producer at the A & E Network—has embarked upon an interesting little project. Well, maybe not so little. “In the…
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The Odyssey Project, Books I – III [by Emma Trelles]
"Cayuga Lake, Ithaca NY," watercolor by Nari Mistry Dear Stacey, I am in receipt of your letter and will say I was pretty tickled when I saw the first mention of Ithaka in…
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What a Poem can Teach about Happiness (by Leslie McGrath)
A year ago, I was asked to give a reading and brief speech for the newly-inducted Phi Beta Kappas at Connecticut College. I chose six poems and wove them into the theme, “Some…
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Green Thoughts in Green Shades [by DL]
If you're an author or reader the words "literary criticism" are usually a downer, so it's a pleasure to find a really smart and stimulating book about great poems in Green Thoughts, Green Shades edited by UCLA…
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Open Fire by Jerry Williams
I’m not much of a fan of Independence Day. “What a waste of gunpowder and sky,” Aimee Mann sang bluntly in her “4th of July” manifesto. Today the holiday seems even more pointless than…
