Despite my Robert Graves obsession this poem stands out. It is clarity. It is release. It is...
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.
This week’s poem comes from Raymond Carver, arguably America’s greatest short story writer and frankly, if Andre...
I first read this week’s poem in seventh or eighth grade. It’s “Dulce et Decorum Est” by...
PJ O'Rourke wasn’t a favorite author. He was a doorway to understanding what thinking could be and...
The email stylings of Neil Young, Whoopie Goldberg, Joe Rogan, Clay Travis, and Joy Ried on the...
Today’s poet is named W.H. Auden because his full name is Wystan Hugh Audan and he should...
I write this as a dilettante fan of poetry claiming no expertise, but in this case I...
I’d be interested to know what the Maus fans will say about the book that replaced Maus...
If you play Wordle and started with Poe you’d be more than half an Edgar Allen towards...
This is not a review of The Beatles: Get Back, This is more of an observation that...
Emily Dickinson: an insane Miss Habersham-type peeking out from a pantry wearing all white and thinking that...
The fear among my stamp of college football fans is that the tournament awards the game and...
This week’s poem comes from an acclaimed writer and notable Australian, Clive James. It’s a remarkable work...
It was a three paragraph lead in to a punch line that required knowing that Shakespeare spelled...
This week’s poem is from Rudyard Kipling. He uses the word “tide” a lot and that endears...
Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory, a Yuletide tradition by many and one that I remember fondly first...
We say Shakespearian and act as if that’s archaic. It’s not. It’s Modern. Chaucer wrote in Middle...
The Hanging God as a book is a demonstration of the poet’s ability. He refuses to be...
Four stanzas with an abab, cdcd, etc. rhyme scheme. Robert Herrick may or may not break from...
I’m going to do something awful to you. I’m going to give you William McGonagall's The Tay...
