That Pure Exclusive Music
Recently some students of mine organized a Lenten social media fast, and asked
me to be a faculty sponsor. Those who gathered at the meeting were few enough to
fit around a small
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
A Good Deed is a Naughty Word
In November, the Chinese State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio,
Film, and Television issued an official statement banning public wordplay – a
gesture to which the western world has responded with puns blazing. Rightly
The Migration of Robert Hass’s Poetry
The summer before my senior year of college, a friend from my hometown threw a
massive party, the only purpose of which was to gather as many of our classmates
as possible from
Why Pick the Old Bones?
Like many good curators, Sir Walter Scott was a creative falsifier with a rich
sense of his own license. Many of us know him by reputation rather than by
reading, but The Minstrelsy
Proserpine
A wave’s white flag unfurls against the headland.
We’re pleased with summer’s long foreseen surrender:
hot noons betrayed by maples fringing umber,
horny insects dying in the wetlands.
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