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Against the Grain
Penelope Trunk writes about going against the (school) grain and getting a great job: A fundamental shift is taking place, where the path… More.
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Wild Abundance and Other Valuable Things
So much is Woolf’s grimy pence and pounds, ledger entries and balance sheets. The bankers convince us to run our lives like (small,… More.
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People Who Know Aren’t Talking
“There is no such thing as nonfiction. There is no such thing as truth. People who really know aren’t talking, and the people… More.
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Crazy
Crazy to be writing poems When the world is on fire. Crazy not to. More.
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When You Challenge Conventional Wisdom
Normally, when you challenge the conventional wisdom—that the current economic and political system is the only possible one—the first reaction you are likely… More.
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Poets at 50
Poets at 50 quote Ginsburg and Snyder, if you’re a woman you’ll channel Mary Oliver, and whisper every line of Wild Geese as… More.
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Midwest Brain Drain
Once, I’m told, the alluvial soil was deep and generous here, and the seed knew its way and took root with abandon, eager… More.
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We Need to Be Unstoppable
The future is bigger than our imaginations. It’s unimaginable, and then it comes anyway. To meet it we need to keep going, to… More.
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Obvious to You
I’ll bet even John Coltrane or Richard Feynman felt that everything they were playing or saying was pretty obvious. So maybe what’s obvious to me is amazing to… More.
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One Big Workhouse
It may be my bias, or my imagination, or my distaste for toil, but from here America looks like one big workhouse, “under… More.
