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ASPIRING TO MEDIOCRITY | Write Out Loud
[ad_1] Increasingly these days I find myself thinking back to cinematic images of vainglory from my younger years. It brings…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Eighty-One) James Appleby [by Angela Ball]
[ad_1] I lived once beside a slaughterhouse Mornings were a thing of gears. They were regulation-compliant machinery. The trucks,…
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when the downpour ends | Write Out Loud
[ad_1] When the downpour ends, In the barren wilderness-like moors, The silence swells, fills the…
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"Resolution" [by Boris Dralyuk]
[ad_1] Resolution i.m. J.C. That night you chose to open and to close your long anticipated show of shows— a…
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Mark | Write Out Loud
[ad_1] On a veiled path, Where shadows pass faintly. A mark inviting questions. Touching the silence at a crossroads, With…
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"Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge — Great Poems of the World, episode 15, with David Lehman and Mitch Sisskind
[ad_1] Kubla Khan By Samuel Taylor Coleridge Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan…
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Dappled sunlight | Write Out Loud
[ad_1] Light & shadow play with dappled sunlight the very air sparkles on this live-long day. I listen to rodents…
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Godwin’s Law [by Joe Lehman]
[ad_1] “As an online discussion or argument grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches.” So…
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"In Reprise: Next Line, Please" — 3 new prompts
[ad_1] <<< Last month, I announced the return of my “Next Line, Please,” column, which ran on The American Scholar‘s…