University Diaries
A professor of English describes American university life.
A professor of English describes American university life.
July 6, 2010 - 2:00pm
"I must continue to write for the same reason I am always compelled to write, in sickness and in health: for otherwise I die deadly, but this way, by this work, I may die forward into the intensified agon of living."
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June 23, 2010 - 3:48pm
The University of Kentucky, a public institution, used to hold the papers of that state's most esteemed living writer, Wendell Berry. But Berry, disgusted by the university's prostituting itself to the coal industry, pulled his papers last year. They will be housed someplace other than the house of ill-repute that UK has become.
June 11, 2010 - 9:22am
Because Leopold Bloom doesn't lie. He doesn't pretend he's Living Your Best Life Now! He's not self-actualized. He's not working on a glossy book celebrating The Spirit of Family.
May 7, 2010 - 6:29pm
"Medical school is the wrong place to train psychiatrists," writes Daniel Carlat in his new book, Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry - A Doctor's Revelations About a Profession in Crisis.
April 25, 2010 - 8:01pm
Peter Porter, a poet born in Australia but resident mainly in England, has died, at 81.
Here's one of his poems -- a poem about poetry, but also I think about art generally.
this page insists that i explain myself
This page insists that I explain myself my poems are over-structured, I am toldbut I’m only making good use of my brain
