“Why wait until the middle of a cold, dark night / When everything’s a little clearer in...
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.
These fires are so good. Every once in a while, I want them and I’m never disappointed....
I like it, but one of the problems of being a good poem by WH Auden is...
Lamb keema curry reminded me of something when I was a kid. The flavors are different, but...
Throughout Yeats’ changing tastes and experiments, there remains Yeats. The form can’t suppress his understanding.
If it were up to me, we’d have pasta with a variant of tomato sauce for every...
Ovid’s Metamorphoses, an epic poem containing some two hundred and fifty plus myths, is one of the...
"Tell me forty minutes before you’re ready.” Her eyes widened. “Forty minutes?” “Yes. I knew you didn’t...
A lot of Robert Service's poetry is “Casey at Bat” length. It’s long enough to tell a...
Walter Savage Landor inspired great loyalty in those close to him and his legendary temper caused those...
Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton all spent time in McLean Hospital, a psychiatric hospital, in...
I love replicating fast food at home. It’s like a game. But Chic-fil-A serves waffle fries and...
I may think him a personal ass, but Robert Lowell was brilliant, among the greatest poets of...
An Alabama baseball coach apparently sold out his team. In sports, that's about as bad as it...
I’m no connoisseur, but I read a lot of poetry. I know what I like, and it...
Chop meat is/was fabulous so well enough was left be. A filet is a filet is still...
As forms go, the villanelle wants you not to take it seriously. At a glance, it’s childish....
Is minestrone pronounced minestrone-eh as if a Canadian was offering it to you, minestrone-ee as if there...
Li Bia, who Ernest Fenollosa and Ezra Pound refer to as Rihaku as he is known in...
We fast track that kind of thing, and for good reason. French onion dip is delicious. This...
