It is time for everybody to read M.F.K. Fisher. As Stacey Harwood reminded me--when I said that food editors always go on about loving Fisher but then don't seem to want to print good prose--"Yeah, but they've never actually read... Continue reading

One feels that one is supposed to look out of windows, not into them. At my 9th-floor office at my family's small HR consulting firm, where I now work, my desk faces the window. When I look out, which I... Continue reading

Ovid claimed that the cause of his exile to Tomis was carmen et error -- a poem and a mistake. Recently, I've been thinking a lot about mistakes and errors. In everyday usage, these can be interchangeable, but for our... Continue reading

Last year, I taught poetry to first-year college students from five countries in Asia. It was hard and wonderful. One of the hard things was to convince my students to revise. Many of them felt that the original power and... Continue reading

In the past week, I have clicked on two links that led me to items related to poetry (or writing more generally) and publicity. In both cases, I found the links via social media. The first link, a T Magazine... Continue reading

The Rest of the Poem by Kunwar Narain Translated from the Hindi by Lucy Rosenstein Water falling on leaves means one thing Leaves falling on water another. Between gaining life fully and giving it away fully stands a full death-mark.... Continue reading

The Rest of the Poem by Kunwar Narain Translated from the Hindi by Lucy Rosenstein Water falling on leaves means one thing Leaves falling on water another. Between gaining life fully and giving it away fully stands a full death-mark.... Continue reading

First, an explanation: My name is Amy McDaniel, and it has been a month since Stacey graciously introduced me (scroll down to "In other news") as a new guest blogger. As she mentions, I will be writing from time to... Continue reading