I am in here.
Nobody tells you how to go about the actual daily life of a poet. I had lazily always figured it would “just happen,” and never gave it much thought. So I take a stab at it… Read Louise Glück’s Meadowlands and the new Nikki Giovanni collection, and bought a plain old large notebook, of the … Continue reading reading
New York City is, as I had thought it would be, busy being New York City. As the plane passed over Manhattan on its way to LGA, I could see even that its wound is healing: the WTC site, from the air, looks much less like the site of a disaster, and rather now the … Continue reading nyc
I could write my own opinions down. In fact, I do, with startling (to me, at any rate) frequency. But Phyllis Chesler does it so well…. The Brownshirts of Our Time […]Instead, I took a deep breath and said that I did not respect people who hijacked airplanes or hijacked conferences or who, at this … Continue reading further elaboration
Okay, I’m a biblical scholar. Sort of. A beginning one, at least. Hey, I’ve read over 80% of the so-called Old Testament — how many other people can say that? Especially the high and mighty ones who always try to make a holier-than-thou point of being better-than-me? Yeah, thought not. What’s gotten me cranky on … Continue reading reading very old books
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