Why a poet wrote a poem — "Obama Checks Black" 9 years ago Rich Michelson Poetry, Quick Reads 0 ••• A poem contains its own meaning. Robert Frost, when asked to explain a poem he had just read, is said to have answered, “So you want me to s...
Poem from 'we plié, unto this last' 9 years ago Patrick Phillips Poetry, Quick Reads 0 ••• Title page of 'we plié, unto this last' what-life, wilderness. what dawn, its smallness and our, our line strung on with it. what...
A Short Visit with Vera Shorter 9 years ago Perry Garfinkel Interview, Quick Reads, Uncategorized 0 ••• Vera Shorter at home. Photo by Lynn Christoffers On Books, Civil Rights and Smoking At 92, Vera Shorter has slowed down. Slightly....
Kale is Dead. Long Live Kale. 9 years ago Catherine Walthers Essay, Quick Reads 0 ••• How publishing cycles and vegetable celebrity don't always align. My aunt called the other day. “I’m going to send you an article,”...
A Visit with Sarah Kernochan 9 years ago Frank Bergon Artists, Features 0 ••• Photo by Lynn Christoffers Sarah Kernochan is a dynamo — a documentary filmmaker, screenwriter, director, and novelist. At 26, she...
Nettie Kent Ruel & Colin Ruel 9 years ago Mathea Morais Artist Profiles, Artists, Features 1 ••• Nettie and Colin at their studio-shack, Photo by Michael Cummo Their arts play off each other nicely. If you Google “famou...
Chapter Fifteen. Insomnia 9 years ago Sian Rebecca Williams Fiction, Quick Reads, Vineyard Midnight 0 ••• Ag Fair, West Tisbury, 2013, by Ed Keating An excerpt from Sian Rebecca Williams' second novel, Fourteen. By Sian Rebecca Williams...
Just Thinking: My Husband Was Right About Everything 9 years ago Nancy Aronie Essay, Quick Reads 0 ••• Tiny House in a windstorm — Photo by Tammy Strobell, flickr.com/rowdykittens About a year ago, my husband told me I didn’t need anoth...
Marie-Louise Rouff 9 years ago Hermine Hull Artist Profiles, Artists, Features 0 ••• Marie-Louise Rouff in her studio gallery. Photo by Lynn Christoffers Colors and lines, from bits of memory. “I have no clea...
A Community of Scientists on Martha's Vineyard 9 years ago Paul Levine Features 0 ••• Andrew Moore: Swallowtails, 36.75 x 59", oil on linen. The geologists, 1786-2015 By Paul Levine One day last November I joined a ...