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A new collection of work by Elizabeth Bishop, has been co-edited by Lloyd Schwartz, who was a student of hers and a friend. The book is titled Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, And Letters. In , Schwartz talks about his initial meeting with Bishop. Obviously he was starstruck, and, like almost any of us in the […]
The other day I heard poet Al Young, on NPR, speaking about poetry and reading some of his own poetry. He was named to the position of California’s Poet Laureate in 2005, and Young has had a career spanning almost forty years, beginning with his first book Dancing, published in 1969. He has numerous books […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education is reporting that three publishers, SAGE Publications, Oxford University Press, and Cambridge University Press are bringing a lawsuit against Georgia State University because of “systematic, widespread, and unauthorized copying and distribution of a vast amount of copyrighted works.”
My teacher fifth grade teacher had a collection of brief biographies of people who, at the time, were pretty famous. One that I remember was about a new comedian that started off, “Steve Martin is a wild and crazy guy…or is he?”
This week’s word of the week is: quirky. It’s the adjectival form of the word “quirk”, which has several meanings. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary gives “an abrupt twist or curve” as its first definition for “quirk”, which gives “quirky” the meaning “abruptly twisting or curving”, while the Oxford English Dictionary’s first definition is, “Characterized by […]
In an article in EWeek, Jim Rapoza offers a broader definition of the term “hacker”, saying, “That hacker could be you.” Condensing an idea he put forth in an essay for the book Jack Bauer for President: Terrorism and Politics in 24, he explains, “A pretty good definition of a hacker is someone who knows […]
If told I could go anywhere—and I mean absolutely anywhere—my first choice would be Naiad. It’s a tiny moon orbiting Neptune at less than thirty-thousand miles. Neptune’s closest known satellite, I think it would provide a spectacular view of one of the most amazing planets in the solar system. And, with the demotion of Pluto, […]
Turning classic works of literature into comic books isn’t a new idea. I remember in school when my teachers were trying to get caught up on grading papers or picking the glitter out of their lunches or taking smoke breaks they’d put a stack of comic book versions of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Ivanhoe, […]
Samuel Johnson, addressing the author of a pastoral poem about the sheep industry, said, “The subject, sir, cannot be made poetic.” Surely that’s not really what he meant, though. Is there any subject that isn’t poetic, especially in the hands of the right poet? As the collection Verse And Universe: Poems About Science And Mathematics […]
This week’s word of the week is: pica. In typographical terms it refers to a size of type, although the Oxford English Dictionary also gives this insanely obscure definition: “In the pre-Reformation English Church: a collection of rules relating to the occurrence of movable feasts”. The definition that interests me, though, is the medical condition […] |
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