Dare I read?

A dispatch from rural Canada: June and Judy, a lesbian couple, “built their own loghouse” “on the Northumberland Straits” in Nova Scotia. “...

After spending about two years wending my way through Kent’s copy of Whitman I’ve been hopping from book to book trying to figure him out. M...

Marie-Madeleine Fourcade is recruiting anti-Nazi compatriots for a spy network to feed information to the English after the Germans invaded ...

Meter and rhyme isn’t much in fashion and hasn’t been for decades. But there are still people who don’t consider a poem a poem unless it pre...

Here’s my suicide attempt: I’m lying in bed, depressed, feeling useless, life a burden, this thinking exacerbated by a terrible cold. I’m s...

Even the most lethal methods of suicide have their survivors. In How Not to Kill Yourself Clancy Martin talks about people still alive after...

In How Not to Kill Yourself Clancy Martin talks about the dearth urge. Do we harbor a hunger for death? It seems counter-evolutionary. You ...

“Suicidal ideation.” I think I heard that phrase first from doctors at the Community Hospital in Santa Rosa. I think about suicide. That’s w...

“Ceu de Mapia … Heaven of Mapia .. a psychedelic utopia … a town of six hundred people   … carved out of the jungle by devotees of Santo Dai...

word of the day: raglan   context: “[During an] 1895 interview, [Peter] Doyle brought out a raglan of [Walt] Whitman’s and explained, ‘I n...

A book of poetry almost always includes an acknowledgments page, where the poet thanks magazines for publishing poems that are now being col...