True Detective mentions a few things from The Yellow King but it’s window dressing...Thankfully, Vaughan delivers what...
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.
“Fourteeners” is what you call iambic heptameter when it’s at home. It’s a fourteen-syllable poetic line divvied...
She’s iconic and unavoidable so I girded myself and waded into her body of work. She only...
I’ve been fascinated by James Joyce’s Ulysses ever since I thumbed through my father’s college copy and...
Considering the ingredients, that should elicit a “Lé Fresca, Sherlock,” but given the hindsight obviousness of the...
The real stuff that can hurt you is more dangerous than the imaginary that can scare you,...
Laura Riding is important among minor poets as her ideas set others thinking in ways that had...
Over the last couple of decades I’ve played around with various versions of coq au vin, but...
I love Hart Crane, but in fractions. Crane, for me at least and I’m a bit slow...
There’s a valid complaint about poetry written beginning somewhere in the middle of the last century that...
Biographer Claire Tomalin claims the death of his wife signals “the moment when Thomas Hardy became a...
Allen Ginsberg has a lot of fans. I’m not among them. I’m also not certain if many...
The Elizabethan conception of poetry was tied to music more closely than ours is so in it...
I had a version of this Tomato Jam recently at a boule court and mason jar glasses...
My son started school today, August 8. That’s absurdly early. Back in 2012 Obama’s Education Secretary Arne...
Muriel Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead is a collection of twenty poems capturing aspects of the...
John O’Brien, a pen name for Monsignor Patrick Jospeh Hartigan, was an Australian poet who tended to...
The Modern movement was turning toward urban. Robert Frost's pastoral New England was, and remained, a Romantic...
When a dish is as simple as beef Stroganoff it’s hard to sift through the claims of...
“Why wait until the middle of a cold, dark night / When everything’s a little clearer in...
