Lifesaving Poems: Czeslaw Milosz’s ‘And Yet the Books’

And Yet the Books And yet the books will be there on the shelves, separate beings,That appeared once, still wetAs … More

Influences: Alan Booth

Alan Booth wasn’t the first teacher to teach me something, but he was the first who drew me into the … More

Spun in drafts

Damp white imprints dog the feet; snowbound trolley, snowbound street. Her tip of glove to lip and cheek, “Goodbye.” Go. … More

Heaney’s Pedagogy

A comment Mark Robinson made in the days following Seamus Heaney’s death in August resonated with me. He said he … More