Emily Dickinson

POETS Day! Emily Dickinson, The Myth

Ben Sears October 13, 2023

She’s iconic and unavoidable so I girded myself and waded into her body of work. She only...

POETS Day: Let’s Talk About Emily Dickinson

Ben Sears January 21, 2022

Emily Dickinson: an insane Miss Habersham-type peeking out from a pantry wearing all white and thinking that...

Fake People, Pure Product dickinson

Fake People, Pure Product

Kristin Devine December 8, 2019

Joyfully imagining something might be true in the privacy of one's own mind seems a very different...

Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025There is no benefit to trying to cozy up to Trump and Co., example one trillion: New Jersey Governor…
North in reply to Philip H on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointRed states build a lot more infrastructure, housing and such development compared to their Blue stat…
North on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointFreddie has always had this squeamishness about YIMBY’s that I think stems from the fact that he, in…
Saul Degraw in reply to Philip H on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025And he has more available but this was expected.
Dark Matter in reply to CJColucci on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025I asked Google's AI the history of that word/medical-phrase. ...gained prominence in the mid-20th ce…
Philip H in reply to DensityDuck on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointWhat pray tell do you think the Right in the US is correct about? I mean Democrats borrowed the righ…
Philip H on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025Welp. I guess he has now had his due process. https://www.npr.org/2025/04/11/nx-s1-5361208/mahmoud-k…
CJColucci in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025I'm not sure about that. I'm older than RFK, Jr., and I remember when I was in 8th grade and homeroo…
Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointFred is weird here because he's pointing to the problems, admitting that the policies he doesn't lik…
Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025The "R word" is an example of the Euphemism treadmill where we decide on a polite euphemism (or medi…