… 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.

I am in the hospital, and have been since yesterday. In a short while, I will be taken upstairs, my right leg wil have something inserted, a...

… Prayer for Uninteresting Times (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… A Story About Friends — Joy Williams

… Sara Teasdale: Winter ( Hat tip, Dave lull)

… … Reading Is a Vice ( Hat tip, Dave Lull)

…… C.S. Lewis and T.S. Eliot: A Tale of Two Critics ( Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… Lucille Clifton — poem to my yellow coat

… Naomi Lazard — Public Notice

… Ancient Wisdom: I Want to Die with a Book in My Hands ( Hat tip, dave Lull)

… The Art of Poetry No. 119 Alice Oswald

… Mystery's toys' (Hat tip, Dave Lull)`

… Lawrence Joseph — Is What It Is

…… Joyce Mansour — “I stole the yellow bird …”

… Courtesy by Hilaire Belloc ( Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… Angela Ball —=Hares

… Alabama Jubilee i grewcup down the street from Joe Kerko's drug stire. He took me to my first baseball game.

… New Year’s Day Tennyson’s ‘Wild Bells’ ( Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… Patrizia Cavalli — “When, thanks to the virtues of wine …”

… Mark Twain On New Year's Day

… John Perreault —+The Lights

… Sonnet: Barbara Loots, ‘An Old Man Makes Chili for Lunch’ (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… R.R. Tolkien's Lost Christmas Poem (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… Eugenio Montale "People talk and talk more …"

… Hemingway On Giving Advice

… Sonnet: Barbara Loots, ‘An Old Man Makes Chili for Lunch (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

……‘ We are the free world now’ — Europe declares war on free speech in the US Well, maybe Bill and Hillary should move to Europe. i think ...

… Edwin Denby — Standing on the Streetcorner

… Jim Powe — lHeat

… Jim Powell — Heat

… In the Bleak Midwinter (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… THE QUIET PRESIDENT WHO STARTED 2 LASTING CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS ( Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… Yusef Komunyakaa — Night of the Armadillo

… Mistletoe (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… The West’s complacency over censorship ( Hat tip,Dave Lull)

… Santa needs new reindeer

… Raúl Zurita — The Pacific Is the Sky

… … William F. Buckley Jr.: Literary Figure

  Eurotrash  -- Christian Kracht's novel of wealth, history, and guilt -- was not one that was known to me, but, enticed by its absurd c...

… Embedding the Cancer Port

… Siri Hustvedt — Weather Markings

… A centennial look back at Edward Gorey’s macabre art and guarded life

… Poem for a Monday morning in winter

… Honorary Jew

… Poem for this special Sunday