… Abigail Adams urges husband to “remember the ladies”

... “Dandelions” by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

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… The Art of Fiction No. 62

… The average college student today (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… A Descent Into Poe's Maelstrom (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… Rabbit, Run! The man who wanted to escape his own life (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… Tell Me by Jean Toomer.

... Cynthia Ozick: ‘Alice in Wonderland seems calculatedly cruel’ (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… Poems by Frank O’Hara Plus his manifesto on Personism and writings about O’Hara by Ted Berrigan, Joseph LeSueur, and Joe Brainard (Hat ti...

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… Poem of the week: The Beautiful Librarians by Sean O’Brien (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… Ledges (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… Fortified and Revitalized (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… An Onegin sonnet by Nigel Andrew (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… Eric Overmyer — I Don’t Eat Tuna Anymore.

… Two Of The Best Crime Short Stories Ever Written: My Washington Times On Crime Column On A Fine Collection of Hemingway’s Novels. Short St...

… My Crime Fiction: 'Salvie Shotgun'

… Anosmia by A.E. Stallings. ( Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… The world does not needs words…

… Much Ado About ‘Decolonizing’ Shakespeare . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… I don’t know so well what I think until I see what I say (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… A Prayer in Spring

… John Gardner on Fiction and Philosophy .

... Miss O'Conner at 100.

… Massie and the Ghost of Luther Martin (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… How I read poems, with aphantasia (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… Abbess of Andalusia’s birthday

… Fortune / has its cookies to give out / which is a good thing

… Jane Hirshfield — th e Stone of Heaven

… Annunciation. J.C. Scharl

… JUST A THOUGHT

… How dreary — to be — Somebody!

… The Sweet Science Loses Another Great Champion (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… Is it “nerve-racking” or “nerve-wracking”?

… Constellation of Genius: Miłosz, Camus, Einstein, and Weil … and a close look at one of these: Ambassador of dreams

… Play (and Watch) Ball! (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… SIGN AND SYMBOL . (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… If ever there were a spring day so perfect.

… Sanford Edelstein — The Salamander

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… ‘Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light’ Review: Mark Rylance’s Master Manipulator (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… Today’s Poem: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (Hat tip. Dave Lull.)

… My Long Night by Charles Simic

… The Navy Joins the War On Drugs

_ Catholic writer of Reagan’s iconic ‘Evil Empire’ speech dies at 76. (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

_ Trump and the Lower Courts

_ Spring Comes to Murray Hill.

_ Olivia Sokolowski Lover of Cars

… New Play "Purpose" Is Anything But Politically Correct (Hat tip, Dave Lull.'

… A Nation, Not A Side Quest

… Imani Elizabeth Jackson — from “Flag”

… “star poem” by Manny Loley

… Gay Talese’s City. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… Is Robert Frost Even a Good Poet?

… John Updike and Frankie Laine

… The Chronicler of Unhappiness. [Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… ‘We remember as true things that never even happened’: Julian Barnes on memory and changing his mind (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… A Look Back At Life Aboard An Aircraft Carrier During The Vietnam War: 'The Compartment Cleaner'

… Shevchenko – Poem for Ukraine

… More than 12,000 forced to evacuate Boston

… Good riddance to literary fiction. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… Louisa Thomas on John Updike’s “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu (Hat tip, Dave Lull.j

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… Carlos Drummond de Andrade — The Package

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… James Schuyler — Heather and Calendulas

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… Emily Dickinson poem for Saturday, 3/15/25

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… The joy of gossip – AN Wilson (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

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… Cynthia Ozick Is Undiminished (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… “Damsels in Distress”: A Cultural Anti-Depressant (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… Andrei Voznesensky — From the Window of a Plane

… Emily Dickinson poem for 3/13/25

… Today’s Poem: I Am. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… A new Robert Frost poem was discovered and published. Is it any good?. [Hat tip, Dave Lull.

… Kingfishers, dragonflies, and more,

… Hypocrisy

… lionelShriver: Am I a culture war addict (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) It may be too early to say if the woke wars are over. The perceived Trum...

… Singular syntax

… DONE IN BY TIME. [Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… Who Will Help a Stranded Manatee? (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… 1st cases of influenza pandemic reported in Kansas

… My Crime Fiction: 'The Rigano Murders'

… The Best of Mexico City

… “When Robert Frost was Bad” or How a 21st Century Critic reads Poetry (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… Chinese Restaurant.

… … When one has lived a long time alone

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… John Miles —Escape Story

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… Emily Fragos — The Suicide of Cesare Pavese

… One of the most famous orations of the Cold War

… In Loving Memory of Alexander Waugh

… Who’s Afraid of Tom Wolfe? (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) He seemed very nice when I met him at the White House when I was the Inquirer's bo...

… Where go the boats .