Full Disclosure

Tennis, Anyone?

Obsession and regression

By Phillip Lopate | Friday, June 30, 2017

Memories of Jazz Nights

You needed stamina, but the payoff was great

By Phillip Lopate | Friday, June 23, 2017

Valentines Past

If only I’d had the nerve …

By Phillip Lopate | Friday, June 16, 2017

On the Death of Friendship

Nothing lasts forever

By Phillip Lopate | Friday, June 2, 2017

On Keeping a Blog

A Farewell

By Phillip Lopate | Friday, May 26, 2017

A Visit to Harvard

And a surprise encounter with Dr. Johnson

By Phillip Lopate | Friday, May 19, 2017

Remembering Cynthia Macdonald

Poet, teacher, opera singer, psychoanalyst, and friend

By Phillip Lopate | Thursday, May 11, 2017

Marrying a Widow

Or, my spectral predecessor

By Phillip Lopate | Friday, May 5, 2017

Baldwin the Prophet vs. Baldwin the Writer

Can a film really capture the essence of both?

By Phillip Lopate | Friday, April 28, 2017

Listening to Dinah

The complexity of “Don’t Explain”

By Phillip Lopate | Friday, April 21, 2017

People With Knapsacks

Three Notes

By Phillip Lopate | Friday, June 17, 2016

Elevated

Alone in space

By Phillip Lopate | Friday, June 10, 2016

We Begin

Introducing our new blogger

By Phillip Lopate | Wednesday, June 1, 2016

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