April 6, 2009
The Unreal Grackle
Last Monday Richard Wilbur gave the 97th Turnbull Poetry Lecture at Johns Hopkins University, following in the footsteps of T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Robert Frost, Marianne Moore, and, […]
March 30, 2009
The Comic Imagination, Part 2
Joseph Tartakovsky’s op-ed piece, “Pun for the Ages,” briefly floated to the top of the NY Times’ most-e-mailed list a couple of days ago. Here’s the highlight: Jean Harlow, the […]
March 24, 2009
The Comic Imagination
On Saturday I moderated a panel on “The Comic Imagination” at New York’s Philoctetes Center. Panelists included Lewis Black, Jim Holt, Bruce McCall, and Tami Sagher. I’ll write more about […]