List, List, O List!

A Response to David Handlin’s “One Hundred Best American Novels”

All Eyes on the Eyes

On the many powers of visual contact

Physicist, Pacifist, Anti-Fascist

In dissent, Einstein affirmed humanity over nationalism

The August Haiku

Cut, Cut, Cut

A Note on Camping

At play in the fields of the wasp

Depends on How You Tell It

On the psychology of narrative style

The Shocking Truth

Anything’s better than being alone with your thoughts

Help Us Write a Sonnet: The Title

Against the Grain

“The Terrorist, He’s Watching” by Wislawa Szymborska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Keepers of the Old Ways

Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive

Above the River of Your Longing

Two new prompts

Casa Gorín

“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Island Royalty

A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary

The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christopheby Marlene L. Daut

The Writer in the Family

The fiction of E. L. Doctorow gave a young man hope of connecting his father and his literary hero

Birthday Boy

“The Horses” by Ted Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amy Wetsch

Life, magnified

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