Billy Collins and Mark Pinsky both talk about getting your reader to the last couple lines of a poem, and giving the reader a reward, something to make it worthwhile. This poem, The Corn Baby by Mark Wunderlich, is a … Continue reading →
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The best piece of writing advice I ever ignored was to write every day. Boy, did I ignore this advice. I heard it dozens of times, from writers I admired, but I didn’t start doing it until I got to … Continue reading →
When you’ve come to the end of the month, you’re about two-thirds of the way through the commonly held idea of six weeks it takes to seat a new habit. Continue reading →
Please go to Brainpickings for the chance to read about Robert Frost and John F Kennedy and to hear Kennedy’s eulogy of Frost. We take great comfort in our nuclear stockpiles, our gross national product, our scientific and technological achievement, … Continue reading →
We and you ought not to pull on the ends of a rope. Would you have tied the knots of war? Because the more the two of us pull, the tighter the knot will be tied, and then it will be necessary to cut that knot. And what that would mean is not for me to explain to you.
