A Familiar Labyrinth
As far as I can tell, one of the main reasons I haven’t been all that successful
as a poet is that I’ve tried too hard to write good poems. As
Alex Miller Jr.
Alex Miller is a staff writer for <i>The Curator</i> and the co-author of <i>A Bow From My Shadow</i> (Ecco Qua Press, 2013), a collection of poems written in dialogue with poems by Luke Irwin. His wo
The Wedge
And in the marshy field that drinks some of
this river, legs muffed in shifting steam,
pale geese negotiate and wrangle, preen
and complain, beaks the black of a leather glove
and gauntlets
Putting Art (back) In Its Place
Gordon College’s Dr. John Skillen is a rare sort of academic: the kind with road
dust on his shoes instead of chalk dust on his elbow patches. As he explains in
the
Letters from Fairyland
To commemorate Italo Calvino’s upcoming birthday, we’re rerunning this piece.
To many contemporary college students and used bookstore aficionados, the work
of Cuban-born Italian author Italo Calvino is a gateway drug
FROM THE ARCHIVE: <i>The Great Railway Bazaar</i>
This piece was first published in July 2014.
Almost forty years after its publication, Paul Theroux’s narrative of a train
trip from Europe to Japan, The Great Railway Bazaar, is still bandied