Okay, so I finally bought myself a copy of Madness, Rack and Honey , the collected lectures of Mary Ruefle out from Wave Books. Full disc...

This first pick is especially important to me as we consider "shopping local" during the holidays and throughout the year. I...

When I was in my twenties I spent a good amount of time with my nose in a book, trying to figure out who I was and whom I might become. I w...

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So, you heard that W.S. Merwin was named the U.S. poet laureate , right? I'm pretty excited about this because it is so very well deserv...

Five or six months ago a UW committee dreamed up the idea of an anthology of poems for their annual Common Book for incoming freshman—and th...

Taking the briefest of breaks from my Lincoln reading, before taking on the newest full biography, A. Lincoln , by Ronald C. White Jr. (to b...

Do you remember the American poet Phyllis McGinley?  No less a poet than W. H. Auden wrote a foreword to her collected poems.  She's go...

The lovely poem"The Snowman" by Wallace Stevens contributed by KW below, I'm inspired to suggest two more poems appropriate, ...

By Thomas Campion Now winters nights enlarge The Number of their hours, And clouds their storm discharge Upon the airy towers. Let now the c...

Every year, not unlike Christmas, our Employee Shopping Days roll around again (thank you management,) and, while I always intend to use thi...