Daniel Liechty | October 28, 2011

note: this contribution is continued from the previous one – it will make most sense if you read the previous one first. Thanks! Normal Dan …

Kirby Farrell | October 24, 2011

Here it is, Halloween, the holiday whooping up the joys of the harvest and playing at fears of the dark winter ahead. The ancient Celts …

Daniel Liechty | October 19, 2011

Many people are quite confused about the thought processes of our fellow citizens of the Tea Party. They seem to support very contradictory ideas and …

Bruce Floyd | October 14, 2011

Robinson Jeffers, the great poet of the California coast, says that poetry should address only the eternal things: “poetry’s function is the passionate presentment of …

Bill Bornschein | October 11, 2011

This post begins with a sense of melancholy born of a reluctant realization that both Ernest Becker and Richard Heineberg are correct in their respective …

Henry Richards | October 4, 2011

By the time I turned my attention to Troy Davis, he was already wrapped in symbols. The symbols I saw were channeled through my usual …