Nobody writes Lord Byron and means his dad John. George won, so barring some immortal act by...
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.
My home version of a tonier restaurant's Spicy Pineapple Collard Greens. It seems off the wall, and...
Today’s featured poem is “The Map” by Elizabeth Bishop. Bishop is yet another poet who rankled mid-last-century...
Piperade is a one pan operation, and every step is cooked at a constant temperature so if...
This poem is about despair and Sylvia Plath’s desperate effort to reinforce a slipping but needed self-delusion.
This POET’S Day poet is Vladimir Nabokov, but before I get to him I’d like to take...
Hot dog sauce is a favorite condiment of mine so I figured I’d give it a go....
I don’t know that I would agree with Edna St. Vincent Millay on very many things, but...
I hope you enjoy the inauthentic authentic looking steak tacos as much as we did
Yeats wondered how the world could recover from a World War that drowned its innocence...but we survived....
The following recipe for lamb stuffed cabbage rolls in tomato sauce is one of those. Takes 30...
This week’s featured poem by Clement Clarke Moore, “The Pig and The Rooster,” keeping in mind that...
Mark Van Doren's “Looking for Something Lost” is a fleeting thought the poet freezes, fleshes out, and...
Sometimes I feel bad for people who don’t speak English and are stuck calling their master lyricists...
This week’s poem is “The Minnesota 8 and the Letter-Writers.” I wouldn’t claim that it’s John Berryman...
We’ll be eating regular food leftovers while we cook a small Thanksgiving dinner at our house for...
Properly set, the Thanksgiving dinner table is a familial perpetual emotion machine. At least, it should be.
If we are to assume that Christina Georgina Rossetti wrote of these things from experience – and...
George Mackay Brown holds up a scene intrinsic to societies the world over without giving context and...
John Donne will be known for his more complex works such as “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” where...
