Issa's Untidy Hut

Having previously reviewed Drenched Through at Old Age , by old pajamas, I've gone back to the well again to an earlier collection b...

From Letters of Note I stumbled across the letter below by Norman Maclean, as well as the one pictured above, on the wonderful Letter...

This past Saturday, February 21st, was the shared birthdays of W. H. Auden and Nina Simone . Auden was never a man of too few words; this ...

Cover by Harland Ristau Michael Dylan Welch, a fine haiku poet and contributing editor to Spring , the journal of the E. E. Cummings Society...

Been dragging a bit on this end of things with the cold that everyone seems to have. Actually lost the entire weekend's work to bed res...

For e. e. cummings, on his birthday: my father moved through dooms of love through sames of am through haves of give, singing each morning o...

Cover by Oberc As noted on today's Writer's Almanac, it is the poet Gary Snyder's birthday (in addition, don't miss Patric...