… 'Perhaps Even Pleasure in Difference' (Hat tip. Dave Lull) i wrote a piece about Cunningham manyyears ago. he saw it and wrote t...

… Patricia Goedicke — Though It Looks Like a Throat It Is Not

… Maxims and Meta-Maxims

… Philip Lamantia — Thorn of the Air

… Remembering Alexander Kluge (1932–2026)

… Charles Wright — The Southern Cross

… Today’s Poem: March (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… Tom Andrews — Cinéma Vérité: A Map Is Not a Territory

Today is Lady Day, otherwise known as the Feast of the Annunciation.

… Edward Salem — My Aerodynamics

… Siri von Reis — A Diet of Glass

  I don't typically enjoy novels set in the present -- and that feeling was certainly reinforced when reading Vincenzo Latronico's P...

… Jane Hirshfield — The Wedding

… We Need to Rescue Poetry i may start postingsome of mine gere. i don't think it will offend anybody.

… Bug by Christian Wiman (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… RIP Calvin Tomkins (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… The Unsung Writer Who Influenced Dutch (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… Lyn Hejinian … — Province

… To a Thesaurus ( Hat tip, Dave Lull)

  After finding myself disappointed by Penelope Fitzgerald's Beginning of Spring , I was eager for something different, for something mo...

… Len Deighton Dies At 91 (Hat tip, Paul Davis)

… How About a Biography of Tom Wolfe? (Hat tip, Dave Lull) i met him once. he and I had been invited to the White House by Laura Bush to t...

… Susan Haack (1945-2026) (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… Tracy Fuad —?Birth

… S emi-formal verse: Rachel Hadas, ‘Ides of March, MMXX’

… Kaveh Akbar — Mothers I Once Was

… Brian Doherty, Historian of the Libertarian Movement, Dead at 57 (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… Nearly 140 years of history celebrating St. Patrick’s Day in Wilmington at the oldest, continuously operated Irish family-run bar in Ameri...

… Farid Matuk — Crease

… Strange Beauty: On Translating Marcus Aurelius’ “Meditations (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… Sonnet variation: Marcus Bales, ‘Detective Story’ ( Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… From “Elegy for the Times”

… A chat with Bsn Yagoda

… Friends of the Library Sale (Hat tip, Dave lull)

… Davis: Philly police and FBI arrest more than a dozen gang members

… Quotes To Inspire You

… Lydia Davis — The Dog Man

… Don’t Know Jack About the Other C.S. Lewis? (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… Lydia Davis — The Dog Man

  I hope readers of the blog will agree that I tend to be generous in my praise of the large majority of books I review here. But having rec...

… Jean Valentine —=Birthday Letter from South Carolina

… Abigail Dembo — The Common Era

…? Weekly Wisdom Quiz

… James Schuyler — Going

… The Eye of Denise Scott Brown

… March Reviews at North of Oxford

… Kenneth Koch — Ten Films

… Davis: Free parking, frequent crime in South Philly

… John Milton: Christian Individualist

… When newspapers cut book coverage, communities lose more than reviews (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… Philip Booth — Night Notes on an Old Dream

… Edward Hoagland, Lyrical Chronicler of the Natural World, Dies at 93 ( Hat tip, Dave Lul)

… Gottfried Benn – Rowans

… Diana Garza Islas — from “Section of Adoring Nocturnes”

… IN MEMORIAM, ROBERT DUVALL (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… Max Jacob — Story Without a Moral

… Sargon Boulus —=Story Without a Moral

  Let me say at the start: I was not ready for that. I'd read, of course, about Han Kang, who won the Nobel Prize in 2024. But The Veget...

… Today’s Poem: My Heart Leaps Up (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… Are Petrarch’s Love Poems Your Perfect Valentine’s Day Gift? ( Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… Canticle of All Creatures (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… Tory Dent — Ocean Park

… Muin Bseiso –.Fingernail Poem

… Henri Cole – Sycamores

… Why am I Bothering to Read Van Til?

… Was Socrates Wrong?

  There are novels which are so well constructed that their content, in the end, becomes secondary. That's certainly the case with The L...

... 70 million years of history

… Starting point for my Mark Twain celebration

… Alice Notley – “I’ve meant to tell you many things about my life …

… Allan Massie obituary ( Hst tip, Dave Lull)

… The strange death of Swiftian satire. 300 years after Gulliver’s Travels, the right to be offensive has died. A N Wilson ( Hat tip, Dave ...

… Lionel Shriver Infuriates the Literary World. That’s Fine By Her. (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… The Fish – by Marianne Moore (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… Margaret Ross – Macho

… Brian Blanchfield – Smalltown Lift

… Former CNN host Don Lemon arrested after anti-ICE protests at Minnesota church Last time I checked, we had freedom of the press in this ...

… On this day in 1933

… Idra Novey – The Experiment

… The passing of James Sallis

  I don't know too much about Denis Johnson, but in my mind, at least, he's part of that cohort of novelists focused on the American...

~ Rae Armantrout – Now See

= The Before Picture – BY MAGGIE SMITH

Ar 5 yesterday morning, I called my emergency caregivers because my catheter didn't seem to be working prooerly. it wasn't, and I sp...

… Linda Pastan – Last Rites

… Charles Olson Poem

  Apologies for my temporary absence from the blog. I've been knee-deep in Rosamond Lehmann's The Weather in the Street . Published ...

… Literary agent Georges Borchardt, who championed Nobel laureates, dies at 97 (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… Nora Claire Miller – Rumor

… Laurence Alexander — When Miles Are the Only Matter

… … Paulé Bártón — The Bowl Seller

… From the “Meditations” of Marcus Aurelius (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… Cynthia Cruz — January

… Paulé Bártón — The Bowl Seller

i hope to resume serious blogging later today. i was released from the hospital yesteday, after having a substantial blood clot on my lung r...

… Jana Prikryl — Small Parts

… An Elementary Confusion Regarding Dispositions and Potentialities

… Nightwind (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… Cynthia Haven: Meet C.S. Lewis's brainy wife ( Hat tip, Dave Lull)

i am still in the hospital, where the internet connection is not so great. i'll post something when i can.