There is No Team in I (But There is an M-E)
Every time you turn around the news media has labeled someone new a narcissist, from Kim Kardashian to Miley Cyrus to Johnny Manziel. Do all of these people suffer from … Continue reading
The Poet’s Guide to Looking Back
It’s been far too long since my last post! I know how vital regular posting is to the life of a blog. But sometimes life intervenes and the first thing … Continue reading
WEDNESDAY EVENING POST: The W&R Literary Roundup For This Week
More interesting lit-related articles from around the web: Nadine Gordimer, Winner of South Africa’s First Nobel Prize in Literature, Dies at 90 | by Patrick McGroarty| from The Wall Street … Continue reading
How Important is Forgiveness in Marriage?
William Carlos Williams’ 1934 twelve line poem “This is Just to Say” has stuck with me for years. I first read it when I was in my twenties. Back then, … Continue reading
Introducing the W&R Literary Roundup
Check out the W &R Literary Roundup, a new and regular feature from Word and Rhyme blog. Lots of awesome websites and blogs publish interesting articles about literature and literary … Continue reading
Go West, Young Woman: Do the Restless Live Richer Lives?
Elizabeth Bishop’s wonderful poem “Letter to N.Y.” is one of my all-time favorites. The narrator starts with… In your next letter I wish you’d say where you are going and … Continue reading
How Francis Macomber Lost the Respect of His Wife
In Ernest Hemingway’s The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, Francis loses the respect of his wife. You get the sense that her respect for him has been dwindling for … Continue reading
That Floor’s Not Going to Sweep Itself
In Jamaica Kincaid’s very short and lyrical story Girl a mother tells her daughter all the things she must do and not do, say and not say to grow up … Continue reading
The Fiction of Memory
One of my favorite stories by Alice Munro is Friend of My Youth. The narrator tells us about a story her dying mother told her: the tale of Flora Grieves and … Continue reading
Scheduled Outage
In his poem So We’ll Go No More A Roving, Lord Byron (George Gordon) writes about the end of wandering about late into the night, “Though the heart be still … Continue reading
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