… known that impelled Columbus to seek a new route to the Indies—and discover a New World—now more than 500 years ago. … University of California and San Jose State, where he was also director and administrator of the Sourisseau Academy … and Howard Fast). Mr. Ryan was also one of the most accomplished napkin cartoonists on the lounge circuit of the …
… setting of the poem: In Anglo-Saxon England a warrior owed complete fealty to his chief. A warrior was stunned unconscious during a battle in which his chief died. He revived after the battle and found himself … me to joys. He who has put it to a test Knows how cruel a companion is sorrow For one who has few friendly protectors. …
Poetry
… Poem for Donald Justice (1925–2004) The late evening fog comes quickly in again, pours over the same San Francisco … brighter now for lack of simple sunlight. You didn’t die in the rain. You didn’t die in Miami. And I cannot know, will never know, if there …
Photography
… collection, with more than five million specimens, was also destroyed, along with the museum’s storied African … circulating online, and, of course, I’ve repeatedly come up short. My whole adult life, I’ve mostly experienced … of an original experience I can’t easily access. It is an incomplete picture, but every moment spent scouring fragments …
… not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and … Phillips except by way of criticism on some non-essential points. Apparently Flanders and Sydnor did not break in upon … awakened conscience of the masses of the free states.” (p. 262.) The fugitive slave law of 1850 was a “clear violation …
Criticism
… So History Begins With Us First and second books of poems come in two general flavors. The first is an omnibus … her future work. Like any artist learning to master materials, tools, and tradition, she’ll find her own right way out … its own moment. It’s impossible to ignore the real-world points of reference for this imagined exchange. We all lived …