
Rhyme and Reason
You can’t contradict an image or a song; you can’t be argued down if you end in apostrophe or revelation.

Folkcal Fraim 8
Word selfies — the selves of the word as it flies from one form of itself to another freer form of itself.

Notes of a Poll Observer
It’s more than enough to remind us emphatically what we stand to lose.

The Attention of a Goldfish
Big Tech is changing how all of us think, even changing the structure of the brain.



Reflections on the Middle of Life
I currently reside in middle age, though the term seems presumptuous.

Alexander Dreier: In the Wild
Alexander did not merely accept his diagnosis, he embraced the disease as a sequence of adventures and revelations.


Anything But Normal
I thought it would be a good idea to teach them mindfulness practice to ease their anxiety from war.

Folkcal Fraim 7
We write with light but the true page of the world, darkness, is what we write on.


On the Importance of Poetic Resistance: “No Sign” by Peter Balakian
Balakian enacts how poetic resistance to easy answers might be a way to avoid the dangers of refusing to learn from the past.

The War Against Human Creativity
GPT-3 may also mark the death of human painting and drawing.

The Map of Poetry, Baghdad, 2003
Slowly, as if building a wall of words, she was re-shelving thousands of burned and abused books.

Original or Backwards
Nowhere in the Bible will you find bootstraps, antidepressants, or a good therapist.

On Teaching Creative Writing to Ukrainian Students
They are suffering so that Europe can live in peace.

A Prayer for My Daughter
I was simply tongue-tied by all that my daughter’s reporting was bearing witness to.


Between Fury and Peace: The Many Arts of Derek Walcott
A special issue devoted to Derek Walcott.