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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Letters of Note on Einstein’s one great mistake. Iranian kids books are pretty great, can we agree on this? The internet exists so I can spend all day listening to whale sounds. Vaguely related: also you can listen to King…
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National Poetry Month, Day 19: “Deer between fallen branches” by Ely Shipley
Deer between fallen branches Snow fills the eyes of the winter animal. She’s like a photograph of himself as a child, feet dangling over the side of a boat, skimming
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 4/18-4/24
This week in San Francisco…it’s the 105th anniversary of the 1906 earthquake, 4/20 is celebrated Dude style at the Red Vic, and Friends of the Public Library is having a book sale!
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #83
UNSOLVED MYSTERIES ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Unsolved Mysteries.
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Notable New York, This Week 4/18-4/24
This week in New York, The Poetry Society of America takes on Irish and American poetry, Page Meets Stage at the Bowery Poetry Club, Rumpus Books Editor Andrew Foster Altschul reads with poet Nick Flynn at powerHouse Arena, spend Earth…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Bad news dudes, medicine doesn’t work in space. All your T.S. Eliot picture needs. Russian underwater creatures are even cooler Water towers of Ireland. (Because, really, why not?) Anthropomorphic koalas and endless pie.
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National Poetry Month, Day 18: “Transparent to Visible Light” by Samiya Bashir
Transparent to Visible Light Across the seas, and then across the seas, an aircraft carried full and whole a world: as far apart as their fair hostess could achieve sat mother and father and their little girl who sucked a…
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Short Stories About Oil
“…it’s all around us, seeps into everything we do, but we don’t see it, we can’t see it, because it’s simply everywhere. It powers us into work, takes us on holiday, lights up our homes and cools down our food.…
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Rock Albums as Books
This is awesome: Christophe Gowans, a graphic designer from London, wondered what it would be like if some of his favorite albums were actual books. He designed book covers and even digitally aged them to be more authentic. Have you…
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National Poetry Month, Day 17: “Ode to Government Cheese” by Oscar Bermeo
Ode to Government Cheese The streets are alive with your radioactive smile, your distinct glow, not quite pumpkin, not quite squash, not quite orange; no, not anything organic.
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Science Saturday
I saw the Space Shuttle Enterprise in person in 1984 at the New Orleans World’s Fair. I only saw the outside, but for a 12 year old who’d grown up loving rockets, it was a huge thrill. Now the Space…