Click Here to Read: Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) Art, beauty, and terror in perfect rhythm by Robert Goodman on the Spoken Word Poetry Substack on January 28, 2026.
Edgar Allan Poe. Image: W.S. Hartshorn (1848 daguerreotype). C.T. Tatman (1904 photo of a c. 1848-1860 photo of daguerreotype missing since 1860). Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: The strange tale of Sigmund Freud’s begonia: How the gift of a plant helped Emma Freud finally get to know her great-grandfather By Emma Freud in The Observer on January 2, 2026.
Love Actually With Richard Curtis LukeParkerBowles and EmmaFreud Photo courtesy of Neil Grabowsky, Montclair Film Festival. Image: Montclair Film. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Dante and Milton, Religion and Politics: Four centuries and a thousand miles apart, each epic poet was traumatized by bloody factional strife that tore his country to pieces. One craved a worldwide monarchy. The other supported a regicide by Jamey Hecht on his Substack on January 6, 2026.
Gustav Doré, Satan Confronting Sin and Death at the Gates of Hell, c 1880. Woodcut on wove paper by Francois Pannemaker and Albert Doms. Collection of the Satanic Temple. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. 
Click Here to Read: Life at Its Most Free: Tegan Bennett Daylight on not writing Ruth Park’s biography on the Sydney Review of Books website on November 7, 2025,
Ruth Park, New Zealand-born Australian author, ca. 1942, from vintage gelatin silver print, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Click Here to Read: Book Review: Broken Glory: The Final Years of Robert F. Kennedy, by Ed Sanders: An excellent historical recounting of what really happened in the CIA murder of RFK, layered with original poetry that merits the term “doggerel.” Reviewed by Jamey Hecht on his Substack on December 14, 2025.
