Tomorrow we shall have to think up signs, sketch a landscape, fabricate a plan on the double page of day and paper. Tomorrow we shall have to invent, once more, the reality of this world. –Octavio Paz, “January 1st” (translated by Eliz. Bishop) For my […]
I swing between procrastination and being really thorough so either way things aren’t getting done quickly. -Freema Agyeman I’ve been busy meeting a big deadline, and of course doing some serious procrastination (whenever possible) away from my desk, but here’s a quick reminder — I will be one of a handful of readers on Thursday, […]
“A story is already over before we hear it. That is how the storyteller knows what it means.” -Joan Silber, The Art of Time in Fiction I hope I am not one of those people who says, “Everything happens for a reason.” As I once heard Barry Keating say, “God doesn’t send you hardship to build […]
Today is the birthday of the inimitable Colleen J. McElroy. In celebration I refer you to my History Link article about Colleen, and to her essay in English Matters (Spring 2011) about post-retirement travels. And here’s a poem from her latest book, Here I Throw Down My Heart (U of Pittsburgh Press, 2012): Crossing the Rubicon at Seventy we do […]