In The Name Of My Father
By: Phil Rockstroh On May 1, after a day of May Day activities on the streets and avenues of Manhattan, my wife and I and a troop of other OWS [...]
Category Archives: Literati
Poems, Essays and Other Literary Works
Poem: Shock and Awe
By: Gary Steven Corseri, Ph.D They told us it would be over soon; They told us it would save our lives. But our children’s eyes hardened like peach pits. More [...]
Poem: Blue Moon Above the Sea
I have not seen the sun set so peacefully like this evening Receding from this sea shore with slow valediction. Here you stand with wide eyes And gaze at the [...]
Poem: Ladybug
(for Garda Ghista, 1944-2012) The ladybug goes back and forth, back and forth across the thin-rimmed screen. She doesn’t know she goes back and forth across the lip of the [...]
Seven Problems of Teaching English as a Second Language
The following notes are merely my own informal observations from several years of teaching ESL. The problems mentioned below certainly do not apply to every ESL school in the world; [...]
We Need More Poets
Writer Don DeLillo once wrote that reading poetry makes us conscious of breathing. I can’t imagine a better way to put it. The first time I fell in love, really [...]
The Death of English
Bad English is the surest sign that we have reached the end of civilization. The following are not statements about descriptive versus prescriptive English. They are about the decline in [...]
A Place to Live
Although I’ve built one or two log cabins over the years, I suppose that way of life isn’t something I’ll go back to any more, especially since I’m already 62 [...]
The Song of the Whistling Thrush
Come to think of it, we have known each other for over thirty, thirty- five years! That is a very long time indeed. We speak of each generation in terms [...]
Poem: Heroes
Do not call them “heroes” if they have done your killing for you. Say that they have done your bidding; say they were your “soldiers.” Say that you have trained [...]
