“For this group of poems, I adopted the prose form to invoke the voice of an anonymous speaker, perhaps snatching truth and wisdom from the four corners of creation, independent of time and…

“One day in London, years ago, when I was practicing a song in the hearing of a musical old friend from my native country he said, ‘Why don’t you just ignore all these…

“Even before I received cartoons from Mark Addison Kershaw, zipped up like a late, late Xmas present in my inbox last month, I might well have endowed a chair for him at Hubris:…

“She was aware of the cold polished floor beneath her cheek, of light blazing through the window. She was aware of the fact that the street beyond the window, two stories down, had…

“The danger of mythology—not just Classical myth, but all myth, from Norse to Japanese to African to Native American—is that it is so deep-rooted in the contemporary cultures to which it is ancestral…

“Perhaps, there’s a need to revisit another category of heroism: virtuous action and extraordinary bravery that arises out of something other than adherence to a personal code or ruined chivalric hierarchy, or to…

“He was old when last I saw him. He’d quit fighting the mirror. His hair was clipped short, unlike the Cinnabon concoction of the 70s. No more that hopeful objet trouvé swirling over…

“We are one. We share one fate with other people and with non-human organisms. This essay provides additional evidence as I attempt to drive home this important point. A headline in the 26…

“After checking our IDs at three separate security points, being sniffed by dogs, and passing through two metal detectors, the hundred or so assembled for my tour finally walked up the steps of…

“The C-word has been around for centuries. The Oxford English Dictionary traces it back to 13th-century London, where you could find ‘Gropecunte Lane,’ a street name, whose modern spelling drops the extraneous e,…