1870. As Louisa May Alcott described it in a letter dated April 24, 1870: “We are living, en pension, with a nice old lady just on the walls of the town with Anne of Brittany’s round tower on the one hand, the Porte of St. Louis ...
Homer Wells (tobey Macguire - "pleasantville", "the Ice Storm", "Prodigy Boys") Has Lived Nearly His Entire Life Within The Walls Of St. Cloud's Orphanage In Rustic Maine. ThoughG roomed By Its Proprietor, Dr. Larch (caine), To Be His Successor, Homer Nonetheless Feels The Need To ...
The researchers say huge blazes may be a sign of things to come. (13)MISFORTUNE.“San Francisco cost of living: A cookie factory’s story”– the rising rents that affected Borderland Books impact all kinds of small businesses: The last remaining fortune cookie factory in San Francisco is on...
and here in Esopus it means down the hill, past the overgrown orchard where the deer linger, to watch the Hudson. And even better, the Hudson is tidal
I have been living in Vietnam for 3½ years now. The cultural challenges that I face on a daily basis haven’t diminished. Those that at first seemed daunting may now appear less so, but others are more evident. And judging from what a Vietnamese American man wrote more than two dec...
landscapes are now viewed as trauma(tizing). A kind of Traumasphere has developed. In my anthropology class, I gave them the same PTSD questionnaire as I did South Sudanese female refugee students living in Uganda now. My students scored much higher in terms of trauma than the refugees did...
In 1875, Oregon orchard foreman Ah Bing became the namesake for what would become America’s most popular variety of cherry. Ah Bing visited China in 1889 and, due to the restrictions of the Chinese Exclusion Act, never returned to the United States. ...
And, yes, I would describe Bored In Arcane Cursive Under Lodgepole Bark as a book-length project rather than a long poem, and I find your each poem a tree, the book an orchard sense of the work apt. The poems all were generated by the same process. In each case, the poem’s ...