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Linda Pastan, The New Dog No more extracts. That's an exercise in frustration.

The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article on MyTube videos showing college pranks. Here's one of the best. It's from Columb...

Bill Bradley has a good piece in the Outlook section of Sunday's Washington Post: We Can Get Out of These Ruts (by Bill Bradley, Sunda...

Today's Pastan poem is Maiden Name . Extracts: My daughter's teacher is named Olenik — my maiden name, ... and I ha...

Here in Washington our cherry blossoms are full out just as the moon is also full. Flickr has photos that I've reproduced below. This ...

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A second poem from Linda Pastan, The Happiest Day In this poem, she writes: It was early May, I think a moment of lilac or dogwood when so m...

Last night a dream attached itself to me. I was half-aware that it wasn't my making and wondered where dreams come from. What causes t...

I plan to post extracts and links to poems by Linda Pastan this month. I'd give the poems, whole themselves, but that would violate her...

Here are entries for two recent days from the diary of Saad Eskander , head of INLA , Iraq’s national library and archives. The British Libr...

La Folie's aria from Rameau's comic opera Platée : I heard this on the Swedish radio station, SR Klassiskt , and, as with the ox on...

Gobbergo has done a good poem on the dead in our lives . As a sub-genre, zombie poetry semms pretty much confined to Halloween fantasies of...

The Library of Congress recently convened a group of information professionals at Google Headquarters for serious talk about the short comi...

My morning commute improves as the seasons progress from the sub-20, pre-dawn hours of midwinter. As the hours of daylight grow, so grows m...

I don't particularly like being in an audience listening to a speaker. So it wasn't characteristic of me to join my classmates in a...

An update to my post on Les Six. Here's an extract from an article that appeared in La Scena Musicale, Vol. 6, No. 1, September 2000: L...

Not too long ago I wrote about Darius Milhaud's Le Boeuf sur le Toit and the restaurant of the same name. Here's a little more Mi...

I wrote about remote controlled gliders and power-planes the other day and referenced Chris Anderson on the subject. Now he's done an ...

Gobbergo wrote me about a documentary on Zidane to be presented during the Madison Film Festival mid-April. Wikipedia has a good article ...

I'm sure I've already mentioned that I like to catch up with the Crooked Timber blog on weekends. I found the rocket in flight imag...