Dana Gioia’s “Summer Storm”
I always liked Dana Gioia’s poem “Summer Storm” and as we leave summer I thought I would share it with the blog. My friend Hazel says this was the poem […]
Literature
A Few Words on Coleridge
By Fraser Hibbitt There is something lovable in the cursory brain. I had read Virginia Woolf describing the poet, Coleridge, as ravenously talking for hours on end about anything his […]
Happy Anniversary JRR and Edith Tolkien
By Carl Kruse Happy anniversary J.R.R. and Edith Tolkien, married on this day in 1916. Tolkien met Edith as a teenager and supposedly became so smitten with her he neglected […]
Devouring A Whale
Tell a friend to read “Moby Dick” these days and chances are they think you’re bonkers. They would be wrong of course. And so what an unusual find to encounter […]