Published: Feb 20th, 2021
A latecomer to pandemic pedagogy, I’m lately drawn to the phenomenon of Zoom Chat–something else that happens while I’m teaching. I first found it distracting and disconcerting, especially when I… Read More
Published: Jun 15th, 2020
Socks Amok. Box. Socks. Pile of socks by empty box. Balled up socks in pile send shocks! She comes – Marie comes. My sock drawer now looks so sorry. Help… Read More
Published: May 6th, 2020
Still at home? Sing along for custom quarantine karaoke here. (Be ready to start with the horns.) You can find the original Camelot theme song here. It’s true! It’s… Read More
Published: Mar 18th, 2020
Breaking social rules about what women could say in public, American confessional poets and standup comediennes sassed up the 1960s with their candid revelations. Spouses, children, and even parents were… Read More
Published: Jan 5th, 2020
Since my Liquid Whitman post in July, more 12-ounce tributes to the poet’s Bicentennial have emerged in the Leaves of Grass Series from Bell’s Brewery. I’ve reviewed three of them… Read More
Published: Sep 30th, 2019
Tennessee Two, that’s like a punk band. –Elvis Costello Ken Burns’s Country Music documentary wrapped its PBS broadcast last week, and now you can binge it. I didn’t expect the… Read More
Published: Sep 25th, 2019
A stone is a thought that the earth develops over inhuman time. — Louise Erdrich The first stories I remember were children’s stories my mother read to me, and Bible stories… Read More
Published: Jul 4th, 2019
Happy 4th of July in this bicentennial year of Walt Whitman’s birth! In addition to archival exhibits and poetry contests, the major U.S. celebrations include a 7-part liquid tribute from… Read More
Published: Jun 8th, 2019
Seeing Rocketman this week recalled what most struck middle-school me about Elton John, master of styles. There were other piano men moving onto my Memphis radio dial in the early… Read More
Published: May 8th, 2019
The Humanities have become a sustainability study in these STEM-driven times for higher education. How does our hive survive the academic climate changes of a shrinking professoriate, curricular compression, and… Read More