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Villanelle

Omens from the Lord, or Nature, the clouds, some darker silhouette.

Vivaldi in the Park

Enough with the stranger, their transcendent experience of art.

Vivid Scenes and Good Prose

Voices of a New Generation

W. H. Auden at the 92nd Street Y

They rose before us under a halo of lights like figures in a shrine.

Wanting

If Vann kisses her, a mist will rise in her brain. A promise of oblivion.

What Makes a Good Story Great

Lori & Garry Marshall

What We Once Needed to Know

We are good at thinking we can stay. We are good at finding hurt.

When Enough Is Enough: Age and the Creative Impulse

What about writers who come suddenly into full power late in life?

When Enough Is Enough: Age and the Creative Impulse

What about writers who come suddenly into full power late in life?

When I Knew Stephen Crane

If he could not evade a serious question by a joke, he bolted.

Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady at One Hundred

This is a novel that contains more than its actuarial share of falls.

Winter

The gravest season and least understood is more than pale heads

Writing

Literary gatherings are a nightmare because writers have no shop talk.

Writing It Down

There were so many tired, frayed words thick in the air around her.

Yard Sale and Other Poems

Years of Experience with Bows and Arrows

You’re supposed to hit is the bull’s-eye, that black spot, precise spot.

Yet and Other Poems

No more laughing like the waves. No more ocean of words to drink from.