Uneasy Rhetoric

Reed College, alma mater of Barbara Ehrenreich, Gary Snyder, and yours truly, bests the previous historical record by one month. A scholar, researching an article for the alumni rag, stumbled across an old recording in the Reed library of Alan Ginsburg reading the first section of “Howl.” This recording predates the previously believed-to-be-earliest [...]

For a couple years, I studied Welsh. You could say it was because I wanted to learn that funny language that inspired countless cut-rate fantasy writers to replace all of the i’s with y’s and use lots of w’s to make people and place names more exotic.
You’d be wrong. It’s a deeply poetic [...]

Happy alleged birthday, William Shakespeare! You bane of high school students everywhere, you steward of the English language!
Central City Opinion asks:
does that mean people who choose to live in the central city and maintain a walkable community should have to accomodate those who do not ? Isnt it time that they “swallow that pill [...]

I wrote my undergraduate thesis on Fulke Greville, a poet who lived during the reigns of Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I. His biggest claim to fame? His friendship with Sir Philip Sidney. Generally speaking English poetry anthologies have very little Greville, and if they have any at all it is likely to be [...]