BLOSSOMBONES - " If you have a knockout piece about any topic you think relates to women's lives and experiences, by all means, sen...

The third issue of the Sylvan Echo, an online publication of several MFA grad students at Antioch University LA is now up. The Echo is mat...

Surprising Juxtapositions and Surrealism Abound Koncel, Mary. You Can Tell the Horse Anything . 1st paperback ed. Dorset, VT: Tupelo Press, ...

“Blank” – the unnamable, the unnamed, the secret, the absence, the fill-in-the-blank invitation and acknowledgement, the empty and the delib...

Another reason Hillary Clinton gets my vote.

In comparing Obama to Clinton, much has been made of his principled exhortations as opposed to Clinton's "calculating" strateg...

To view Robin Morgan's essay at The Women's Media Center, click here . To read Robin Morgan's 1970 essay "Goodbye to All Th...

The editors of the NY Times have come out in strong support of Hillary Clinton as the Democratic nominee for President. In its Opinion , the...

The NY Times reports that Iraq is asking for more time (U.S there for up to another 13 years) and more equipment (the laundry list included...

That's what the results claim. here's the poop: What is Your World View? created with QuizFarm.com You scored as Postmodernist...

NPR Radio is covering the NH Primary .

CLICK PHOTOS FOR A LARGER SIZE. At 10PM EST, Hillary Clinton was holding a three-point lead over Obama. Photos from the NY Times .

The "surge" notwithstanding, 2007 was the deadliest year in Iraq. A day-by-day chart compiled by American and Iraqi governments a...

Just ten days after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto,a murder that galvanized Pakistanis into grief and violent reactions, and cast immed...

Apropos of the new year, a poem by Polish poet, Wislawa Szymborska. THE CENTURY'S DECLINE Our twentieth century was going to improve on ...

In a 90-minute speech, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf denied that the military or intelligence community within his government was inv...

31. Hsien / Influence (Wooing) above TUI THE JOYOUS, LAKE below KêN KEEPING STILL, MOUNTAIN The name of the hexagram means "universal,...

Thanks to Sharon Brogan for the nudge - see a string of New Year's haiku at her blog , and add your own. The tradition continues here wi...

Question by Nawaz Sharif, former prime minister of Pakistan, upon his visit to Benazir Bhutto's gravesite. The full article is here . Mo...

This slide show is from the NY Times.

News reports from Pakistan and elsewhere confirm that 54-year-old Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in Pakistan. The NY Times report...

Here's today's random draw from the I Ching: 59. Huan / Dispersion [Dissolution] Commentary below (from deoxy.org with gender-speci...

8:45am Eastern Time. Jacksonville, FL. Outside my window, the squirrel is holding a pecan in its gloved claws and chipping away at the husk....

Congrats to my fellow Scarlet Tanagers for the publication of issue two of The Sylvan Echo . Editors Mel Jones, Barbara Simpson, Andreanana ...

The prospect of merit pay in the teaching field is a can of worms. But it's an issue that continually pops up on the campaign trail, spa...

Earlier this week, I participated in the first International Poetry Reading and Reception at the community college where I work. I originall...

Up early this morning and skipping from (mostly poetry) blog to blog. Here's what I've found worth reading: On the benefits of repet...

I ran across one of those quickie blog ratings and put mine through the test. According to The Blog Readability Test , my blog is at the lev...

BLACK FRIDAY ten Mourning Doves flurry across the flagstones, dust-speckled wings, something god-like in their descent. A grey s quirrel sc...

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