A Chapel
Poetry - “Yet these walls sound with echoes of the past,/With whispered prayers which linger in the air/And animate this space – still holding fast:/A shelter from the passing world’s despair.” (4/14/2025)
Poetry - “Yet these walls sound with echoes of the past,/With whispered prayers which linger in the air/And animate this space – still holding fast:/A shelter from the passing world’s despair.” (4/14/2025)Strawberry Fields Forever: Amie Whittemore’s “Nest of Matches”
Essay - “Lilies/finch/flinches/nest/basil/hair/hat. I would swear before a jury that those are all legitimate off-rhymes, even if I were convicted of perjury for it. I wish that Shelley or Keats or Lorca or Miguel Hernández were alive so that I could pass this poem along to them.” (4/13/2025)
Essay - “Lilies/finch/flinches/nest/basil/hair/hat. I would swear before a jury that those are all legitimate off-rhymes, even if I were convicted of perjury for it. I wish that Shelley or Keats or Lorca or Miguel Hernández were alive so that I could pass this poem along to them.” (4/13/2025)The Incorporated Town and Cold War Clocks
Poetry - “The train cars are trying to sleep/in the postal town. Purple tracks/forsake concrete footer and loading/dock pad. The pale moon/asks homes to hold the bones.” (4/11/2025)
Poetry - “The train cars are trying to sleep/in the postal town. Purple tracks/forsake concrete footer and loading/dock pad. The pale moon/asks homes to hold the bones.” (4/11/2025)Embers and What Will Unleash
Poetry - “But embers don’t care who goes or stays. They fire up blueberries/and coyote brush, traumatizing elk/deer/hawks/hares again.” (4/7/2025)
Poetry - “But embers don’t care who goes or stays. They fire up blueberries/and coyote brush, traumatizing elk/deer/hawks/hares again.” (4/7/2025)Public Education
Poetry - “No one assigns homework./No one expects anyone to do anything./Disappoint, like ill-fitting pants,/can chafe you to death.” (4/4/2025)
Poetry - “No one assigns homework./No one expects anyone to do anything./Disappoint, like ill-fitting pants,/can chafe you to death.” (4/4/2025)Making Sense of the Rotherham Child Sex Abuse Scandal Essay - “British cultural and political life is governed, accordingly, largely by emotion and instinct.” (4/2/2025)
Essay - “British cultural and political life is governed, accordingly, largely by emotion and instinct.” (4/2/2025)Daisy Chain
Poetry - “Astrology is not a science because women conceived it/and it’s not a religion because the stars, even/with the pictures they pattern,/could never take the place of a god” (4/1/2025)
Poetry - “Astrology is not a science because women conceived it/and it’s not a religion because the stars, even/with the pictures they pattern,/could never take the place of a god” (4/1/2025)Cosmic Comic Kvetching in Anthony Immergluck’s “The Worried Well” Essay - “The grand Guignol exaggeration provides an excellent comic read, as we fail to take completely seriously his worrywart grandstanding. Chances are, we have known someone exactly like him, who upon greeting us, got straight to describing their various medical conditions, real and imagined in excruciating detail.” (3/30/2025)
Essay - “The grand Guignol exaggeration provides an excellent comic read, as we fail to take completely seriously his worrywart grandstanding. Chances are, we have known someone exactly like him, who upon greeting us, got straight to describing their various medical conditions, real and imagined in excruciating detail.” (3/30/2025)Overpass to Memphis Poetry - “This insufficient code of the soil—/aphasia’s shorthand where/language lathers in mud, masquerades its atoms” (3/28/2025)
Poetry - “This insufficient code of the soil—/aphasia’s shorthand where/language lathers in mud, masquerades its atoms” (3/28/2025)Walking and Thinking Essay - “Nevertheless, I am often struck by how many great thinkers have also been great walkers.” (3/27/2025)
Essay - “Nevertheless, I am often struck by how many great thinkers have also been great walkers.” (3/27/2025)