The usual things are going on in many places. War, hate, and killing of enemies in order to love, protect, and nurture ones own. Inflicting punishment on others yet remaining free of consequences is not possible for us as human beings or nations; for the revenge that brings joy also brings grief. This is the [...]

Here is to all those poets who made sure with all their might that their poems rhymed notwithstanding history which judged them trite or our English professors who showered the poets having no sense of meter with undue praise we can make a case that a great wrong has been done. Oh but how Robert [...]

On July 3, 2006, I was in Franconia, New Hampshire. Someone mentioned that the famous American poet Robert Frost loved the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Frost, in fact, lived in Franconia from 1915 to 1920 and spent nineteen summers there as well with his family. I discovered that the Robert Frost Museum was only [...]