Clean Sweep
* Lillian Li *
August 7th was moving day, a day I had anticipated with equal parts dread and excitement since the dead-end of January.
Monthly Archives: August 2014
The Case for Locally Sourced Books
* Kevin Haworth *
What if we assigned books the way that many of us buy our food—from the local outward. What would a locally-sourced book list look like?
Literacy for Poets
* Leah Falk *
In the fiftieth anniversary year of Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media, considering the alphabet as both technology and aesthetic object.
Intimacy, and Maureen McLane’s My Poets
* Paula Mendoza *
I’m fascinated by the phenomenon of literary intimacy—the relationship between a reader and the literature they love—and in particular, the intimacy between a poetry reader, and the poets they admire.
On Transformative Compassion
* Kaveh Bassiri *
The recent trying political events in the Middle East are so dark and troubling that I lost the elation of Arab Spring and went in search of moral and ethical grounds — a vista where I can look at what is happening from a clear vantage point.