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This past week I taught a short course on reading and enjoying poetry, bookended and interrupted by Ogden Nash. Among other things, it included a…

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All fruits in the Vaccinium genus (blueberries, huckleberries, cranberries, deerberries) are edible, though not all are delectable. Though they can be…

Jul 19

While I’ve never seen it staged, when I was a child I found a fading orange copy of Christopher Fry’s The Lady’s Not For Burning at the annual library…

Jul 4

I read Maurice Maeterlinck’s The Life of the Bee very early in my life, led there by epigraphs in Laurie R. King’s On The Segregation of the Queen, and…

May 14

Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages… In retrospect I am struck by what shining veins of gold are mined from interstitial time. On my last day in…

Apr 17

Every February for the past four years, ever since I lost my last job, I walk to a park where nettles grow wild, carrying kitchen scissors, a paper bag…

Mar 19

There are two truths against which the networked, cabled world with all its unutterable speed and weight flings itself with a roar like the ocean…

Feb 27

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