January 16, 2009

Letter to a Young PoetBy Daniel Nayeri


So vast was my fanboy admiration of Billy Collins when I was in college, so unencumbered by facts my ambition, and so shameless my neophytic insolence, that I wrote the Poet Laureate of United States – Billy Collins – a poem.


Financial Frenzy:
Don Delillo’s Cosmopolis
By Alisa Harris


The novel is about a suicidal, mad pursuit of knowledge – about the desire for immortality through information – and the crash that follows. It is one of those prescient books that resonates more today, with our own financial titans falling, than when it was written in 2003.


Sweet Land:
the Waltz of Olaf and Inge
By Jenni Simmons


Love your spouse, work hard on your sweet land, befriend your neighbor, and spin a good tale.

Alissa Wilkinson

Alissa Wilkinson

<a href="http://www.alissawilkinson.com">Alissa Wilkinson</a> founded The Curator in 2008 and was its editor for two years. She now teaches writing and humanities a <a href="http://www.tkc.edu">The Ki