Click Here to Read: How the Rich Reacted to the Bubonic Plague Has Similarities to Today by Kathryn McKinley on the Real Clear Science website on April 2, 2020.
Giovanni Boccaccio. Painter Anonmymous. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
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Category: Literature
Review of Butterfly Words by Daniel Rosen Reviewed by Merle Molofsky
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Henry Seiden: Literalist of the Imagination
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How Pandemics Seep into Literature
Click Here to Read: How Pandemics Seep into Literature By Elizabeth Outka the Paris Review on April 8, 2020.
1918 flu epidemic: the Oakland Municipal Auditorium in use as a temporary hospital. The photograph depicts volunteer nurses from the American Red Cross tending influenza sufferers in the Oakland Auditorium, Oakland, California, during the influenza pandemic of 1918.
POETRY MONDAY: April 6, 2020
Jay Rubin
Is it safe to say “Happy Poetry Month” at a time like this – when so many people are frightened, huddled in their homes – if they have homes? Yet poetry has a way of keeping us in touch with existential reality, music for the soul and mind – so yes, I’m indeed saying it. Happy Poetry Month!!!
As always in April, I’m asking you to support poets and poetry by buying their books; this time, when physical bookstores are closed, you can call them and have them mail the books to you or you can order them yourself, online. Please do. I don’t need to remind readers of this column that a book of poems can reward you again and again.
The poet we have for you today, Jay Rubin, has had and continues to have a very interesting life. Well-traveled, as you will see from his poems, he is also, like so many of our poets, multi-talented. Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: April 6, 2020