Kingsley Amis became a known member of a literary movement known, fittingly, as The Movement. Theirs was...
Ben Sears
Ben Sears is a writer and restaurant guy in Birmingham, Alabama. He lives quite happily across from a creek with his wife, two sons, and an obligatory dog. You can follow him on Twitter and read his blog, Might Stain Your Shirt.
X may be a bigger marker of character than Y, so we’ll decide based on X w/a...
Jazz was a huge influence on Langston Hughes, and I think this work is an excellent example...
I just took my kids to a Waffle House for the first time and it was amazing....
I used to work as a sommelier, even though I still need autocorrect to spell the word...
If you look into the history of the actual man you’d find that he was a...
If college football is anything like it is assumed by so many, the Sicilians need to take...
Here’s something that Walt Whitman definitely wrote, but note, when he's not singing to his electric body...
Today's escape poem is remarkably tailored to such an occasion. Shel Silverstein’s “Sick” is a tribute to...
This guy Cavarfy was born in Alexandria and should have been, by modern standards, called an Egyptian,...
I’ll not be conscribed. I’m not the only one with dissenting t-shirts in the back of a...
Empathy is a binder. So is suffering. We’ve been told over two years that “We’re all in...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson was also possibly the most popular of the Victorian poets and his Byronesque fame...
Hopkins was referring to the energy of the Victorian poets. They certainly had that. Robert Browning certainly...
e.e.cummings makes arguments as to why you should ride the wave of passion, but the arguments are...
I think that timing is a requirement in comedy, but it’s cruelty that matters. The cruelty is...
Ozymandias is cast as a reflection on the passage of time and the mortality of effort, fame,...
“That is no country for old men.” begins Yeats in “Sailing to Byzantium.” It is a stark...
Not a nice thing to think about but Strickland Gillilan may have comforted your aunt in a...
Like Tim Tebow to the NFL, I think that the enfants terrible’s metaphorical passing motion...Maybe it doesn’t...
