Oct 25, 20174 minSilkin, SlippageMy first class taught by a “real” poet was back in January, 1978, my freshman year at The College of Idaho. We had a four-week winter...
Oct 14, 20171 min३तीन. Pronounced tin, the Sanskrit word for three, which in the Devanagari form is ३. A 3 with a tail. That’s the title of the play I...
Aug 12, 20175 minJimmie E. LinegarI didn’t want this post to be about Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, Virginia, who was murdered today by a white supremacist. I didn’t...
Jul 30, 20172 minMillennial LoveLet me first say how tiresome I find the whole generational divide thing, those reductive divisions about what constitutes a cultural...
Jul 2, 20173 minArtingDo I judge people and their taste in art? I think so. A professor-colleague may tell me, for instance, how much he values poetry, but I...
Jun 24, 20172 minThree WomenAs the poet Maggie Smith reminds us, “the world / is at least half terrible.” And to have a blog devoted to happiness and beauty, my...