Even with the wild costumes, breathtaking special effects, and badass fight choreography in Captain Marvel, I couldn’t take my eyes off Brie Larson’s hair. I…
Reading Samantha Shannon’s The Priory of the Orange Tree
Midterms season is probably not the best time to read an 848-page novel pertaining in no way to your exams, but the mind has curious…
A Reflection on Cowboy Poetry
It was by pure coincidence that I encountered news of the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. A short blurb from a New York Times caught my…
Writer’s Block, Dickinson, and the Wonder of Interior Life
I don’t remember when poetry came into my life…
Entering Middle Earth … and Staying There: The J.R.R. Tolkien Exhibit at The Morgan
Going to the Tolkien exhibit at The Morgan Library was for me a bit of time travel. My dad had read me The Hobbit and…
Endnotes on Pale Fire
Azure adj. blue, bright, cloudless; (of love) cloudless: The false azure of cloudless love. And when a noun – heaven, palate, the roof of one’s…
Claiming Holiday Supremacy: A Halloween Blog
October is upon us, and we all know what that means; it’s finally time for Halloween. On the list of the top ten best holidays,…
Water Lilies after Monet
And light— my paint liquid light— the pale flush of rose lustrous daffodil yellow lilac blue and soft electric silver warm blaze colored oil glowing…
Anatomy of Absence
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Photo by Brad Javernick of Home Oomph There was a hole at the table where her son used to be. Once he had sat across…
We Sail These Seas
Long ago, they set fire to their homes. At the end of winter, when the snowdrifts began to deflate and the dead trees began to…