Rhyme and reason: why poetry is winning over new audience

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 4, 2019February 4, 2019 Literature

Click Here to Read: Rhyme and reason: why poetry is winning over new audiences: Mindfulness and cognitive therapy have given new avenues to explore an age-old genre by Justin Thomas on the National Opinion website on February 3, 2019.

Click Here to Read about and Purchase: Climate of Opinion: Sigmund Freud in Poetry Edited and With an Introduction by Irene Willis.

Click Here to Read about and Purchase: A Path with No Name: A Collection of Poetry and Painting by Mali Mann.

Click Here to Read about and Purchase: Everyday Flowers by Kalpana Asok.

Click Here to Read about and Purchase: Rehearsal: Poems by Irene Willis.

Click Here to Read about and Purchase: Bone Shop of the Heart: Poems of Memory and Desire by Eugene Mahon. Continue reading Rhyme and reason: why poetry is winning over new audience

The Fake Threat of Jewish Communism

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 4, 2019February 4, 2019 Books, Politics

Click Here to Read: The Fake Threat of Jewish Communism by
Christopher R. Browning in The New York Review of Books in the
February 21, 2019 ISSUE.

Fridays for future. The school strike continues!

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 4, 2019February 4, 2019 Politics, Science

Click Here to Read: Fridays for future. The school strike continues! #climatestrike #klimatstrejk #FridaysForFuture twitterfeed from Greta Thunberg.

On December 12 2009, while the COP15 climate negotiations were taking place in Copenhagen, around the globe people protested for an ambitious and fair climate treaty. These are photos from the Melbourne Walk against Warming. Image: Takver.

A Bold New Theory Proposes That Humans Tamed Themselves

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 4, 2019February 4, 2019 Science

Click Here to Read: A Bold New Theory Proposes That Humans Tamed Themselves: A leading anthropologist suggests that protohumans became domesticated by killing off violent males by Melvin Konner in the Atlantic Monthly in the March 2019 Issue. Homo neanderthalensis lifting Rock close Reconstruction. Image: Neozoon. Public Domaian via Wikimedia Commons

POETRY MONDAY: February 4, 2019

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 4, 2019February 5, 2019 Literature

Kate Sontag

Good morning, everyone – and I hope those of you in areas where it’s frigid are able to stay indoors where you can be safe and warm (or hygge, as we’ve learned to say now). I’m always impressed, as you must be, by people who manage to get to work on days like these, still cheerful and smiling, even though they may be worried about how their children are doing when schools are closed.

I met our poet for today, Kate Sontag, only recently, although I’ve had a book of hers on a table close by for many years. Some of you may already know of it: After Confession: Poetry as Autobiograpy, Edited by Kate Sontag and David Graham (Graywolf, 2001). It’s a collection of essays from a number of the best-known poets of our day, some of whom, like Colette Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: February 4, 2019