, November 05, 2025
“In vino, veritas.”
, November 05, 2025
“In vino, veritas.”
March 10, 2022
"I am often asked if I know of a good poem to be read at a wedding, and here’s one." - Ted Kooser, former national poet laureate....
March 09, 2022
Poetry is often taught in very strange ways: you’re given a poem and told that it’s good – and that if you don’t think it’s good then you haven’t understood it, and you should read it again until you have, and then you’ll like it. This is nonsense....
March 08, 2022
A spectacular neon at the junction of España and another road was a landmark in the sixties, and its pushy advertising would reach where we lived, a few streets down, and into my room....
February 17, 2022
"When Hughes found Plath in this rage, he began striking her repeatedly. Her unborn child, about four months along, died within days."...