Carll
+2
Aug 1, 2026
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2 min read
A Meet-and-Greet with my Avian Neighbors
Hankering to Know the Names of Birds
Culture
+1
Jul 31, 2026
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2 min read
The Odyssey: Yes, No, Maybe?
Smart as the smartest tech-bro, Odysseus suffers PTSD big-time
Henry
+2
Jul 30, 2026
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2 min read
Better Safe than Surly
Deer do not so much threaten Henry as insult his amour propre
Carll
+1
Jul 29, 2026
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2 min read
At Long Last a Coward Confesses
To subsist a poet had to be something else
Poetry
+1
Jul 28, 2026
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4 min read
Being a Teenager Again, Naked in the Moonlight
The mystery of Louise Glück’s “Midsummer”This is the subtitle
Writing
+1
Jul 26, 2026
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9 min read
An Essay to Blow Away the Blues
A light conversation lights us to revelation
Carll
+1
Jul 25, 2026
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2 min read
Cleaning Up Our American Mess
To save the state we must become its opponent
America
+1
Jul 23, 2026
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2 min read
Faith versus Reason, a War to the Death
The good news about our moment is the news is so bad
Carll
+1
Jul 22, 2026
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2 min read
Strolling Deep Woods with a Curious Dog
Absence of silence is among the saddest privations of our epoch
Poetry
+1
Jul 21, 2026
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3 min read
The Unending Puzzle of a Potent Poem
Teasing Out Auden’s Troubling Brilliance
Culture
+1
Jul 19, 2026
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2 min read
Why This Orgy of Hatred?
By upholstering our lives, we impoverished our souls
Carll
+1
Jul 18, 2026
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2 min read
Racing to Get Home Before Dark
I don’t want to have time for my friend’s memoir
Me
+2
Jul 15, 2026
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2 min read
Who Would I Be Without You?
Imagination is my escape hatch from the dreary mereness of me
Poetry
+1
Jul 13, 2026
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3 min read
Searching for the Poet in his Poem
Ted Hughes goes fishing for meaning
