Click Here to Read: A Translator’s Masterpiece: Hillel Halkin’s lifetime of thinking about language, Zionism, and writing pays rich dividends in his ‘indispensable’ new collection of essays devoted to the writers who created modern Hebrew literature out of nothing
by Adam Krisch on the Tablet website on March 04, 2021.
Click Here to Read:‘A Very Lonely Business’: by Daphne Merkin “How any woman with a family ever put pen to paper I cannot fathom,” Virginia Woolf wrote. Is there a tradeoff between motherhood and artistic creativity? in the New York Review of Books in the February 11, 2021 issue.
Virginia Woolf. Photographer George Charles Beresford. Public Domain via Public Media Commons.
Chris Waters
Good morning, everyone! And a beautiful morning it is, too, here in the northeastern U.S., where we have so much to be thankful for, since our recent election. We’re still trying to beat the corona-virus (I don’t want to capitalize the enemy), but as more of us get the vaccine, wear our masks and social distance, it will be over – not soon but eventually and perhaps while those of us who are reading this are still alive.
But enough of that depressing talk, and on to poetry, which so many of us know has the power to heal.
Our poet today comes to us from across the pond. Chris Waters is a London-born poet and musician, born in 1946, which seems incredibly recent, now that time itself seems to have lost so much meaning. Based in Devon since 2001, he has been performing with fellow poets, musicians and the spoken-word groups, Visible Ink and Que Pasa? in touring productions all over the U.K. Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: February 1, 2021
