Anecdotal Evidence

I can think of many reasons someone might wish to assemble a reading list and share it with others. Most obviously, teachers drawing up a sy...

“Lend me—lend me some disguise; / I will tell prodigious lies; / All who care for what I say / Shall be April Fools to-day!”   This sounds...

“He knows that every man who has some music in his soul can write poetry ten or twelve times in the natural course of his life, if the stars...

“The voice of his poems, though sometimes marred by an affectation of toughness, is severe, sardonic, and bruising.”   Who might be the su...

Almost fourteen years ago a friend gave us two anonymous bulbs about the size and color of a Bosc pear. I planted them in the front garden b...

Another foul-tempered screed written by someone unhappy with – well, everything. His tantrum is omnidirectional but his favorite punching ba...

“The vocabulary of science is sometimes arcane, uncouth, and even downright ugly. There ought to be prizes for poets who can use the term qu...