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… as a result of the US bombing of Hiroshima. The year she died, Sadako was able to make more than 1,400 paper cranes … Whenever a mass school shooting happens, the grieving community is inundated with gifts and letters. (In Parkland, … and they agreed to help manage the files and build a website. And so we started. I would take a tray of stuff and …

… New Yorkers fear as they lie in wait for us like enemy soldiers at ambush. Whatever else it may do, living in this … the dominant idea in this city was that life was becoming better. Optimism bloomed like those luxuriant … is it the neighborhood in which I currently live, it has also served as my place of beginning again. On Aug. 24, …

… the phone about his deteriorating medical condition and his coming to Houston for surgery. I remember hanging up and telling my wife, also a physician, “Hana, he’s dying.” So when I read the … is perhaps his magnum opus, an epic lyric that has become an international literary phenomenon through the …

… recent history affords much evidence that it is Intellectuals who are most swiftly and permanently convinced by a … America; why predict the ruin of a culture that never had come into existence? Had he been acquainted with our idiom, … can be no other, since cultures are by their very nature incommensurable. The English man, with rare exceptions, does …

… 1917, who suffered from alcoholism and mental illness and died prematurely: Hart Crane, Theodore Roethke, Delmore … poets in our youth begin in sadness; / thereof in the end come despondency and madness,” we must look to Jarrell’s … Wasn’t that a wicked thing to make a child do?” In 1926 the lonely, handsome boy posed for the statue of Ganymede …