Noteworthy: Diane Severin on <i>Tinker Creek</i>
“I live by a creek, Tinker Creek, in a valley in Virginia’s Blue Ridge,” Annie
Dillard wrote in her luminous Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.
> “An anchorite’s hermitage is called an
Tessa Carman
Tessa Carman writes from Phoenix. She likes trees, slow meals, used bookstores, and semicolons.
Beauty at Session House
The lights were low that Sunday night as the raw-voiced minstrel sang in the
corner of Session House, an Irish pub in Manhattan’s Midtown East. I was
standing at a bar table
Facts
So then. There was a he, who met a she, and they
got on quite well, and the narrator of the poem
was nowhere to be found, so kindly he or she had
Parable on Wall Street
“The point of a protest isn’t direct action; it’s to educate people.” He puts
his hands in the pockets of his black Nin jacket. A purple scarf is tied around
his
On Tomato Picking
Tomato picking must have a long and illustrious history. I’m sure many
distinguished persons took part in it, from Seneca to Samuel Johnson to Susan B.
Anthony—great men and women who