Hello all, a little update on my post from 6 months ago about learning Latin. I shared enthusiastically that I was embarking once again on an attempt to learn Latin. I had applied a tip that was ostensibly from a neurological expert to implant desires into the subconscious, and I acted on these suggestions with… Continue reading Latin Lament: a reflection on the failures of mechanical learning
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Review: Amy Newman’s On This Day in Poetry History Mythologizes Poetry, One Weird Robert Lowell Anecdote At a Time
Some poetry collections are written with me in mind, I’m convinced. I couldn’t imagine a poetry collection more well-suited than Amy Newman’s On This Day in Poetry History to my personal tastes. (Well, maybe one that talked extensively about Lord Byron’s Venetian exploits or Mitt Romney’s imaginary, pizza-fueled demise . . . but that’s why… Continue reading Review: Amy Newman’s On This Day in Poetry History Mythologizes Poetry, One Weird Robert Lowell Anecdote At a Time
Not for the first time
I’m trying to learn Latin and not for the first time. 7 years ago, I bought a Latin textbook at a used-book store, took it home, and imagined knowing how to read and speak this ancient tongue. At the same time, I took a class on English’s reception of Latin literature, listening to lectures from… Continue reading Not for the first time
A Ghost in the Coffee Shop: A Method for Peer Review
“Are you too deeply Occupied to say if my Verse is alive?” Emily Dickinson wrote with some fervor to the editor of a daily publication. “The Mind is so near itself—it cannot see, distinctly—and I have none to ask—” Writing is best understood as a static text coming into contact with a dynamic mind. When… Continue reading A Ghost in the Coffee Shop: A Method for Peer Review
Whimsy
Due to a general aversion to emotion other than joy in my upbringing, I have a tendency to want to keep things light and funny. Poetry has given me a space to explore my feelings on a broader and more nuanced field, but this tendency for lightness is something that crops up very frequently in… Continue reading Whimsy
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