Why a poet wrote a poem — "Obama Checks Black" 11 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' 11 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 11 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. 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 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 ...