Click Here to Read: Learning to Live in Steven Weinberg’s Pointless Universe: The late physicist’s most infamous statement still beguiles scientists and vexes believers By Dan Falk on the Scientific American Website on July 27, 2021.
Steven Weinberg Image: Larry D. Moore. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: NASA’s InSight Lander Gives First Look at Mars Interior, Yielding a Big Surprise: Analysis of marsquakes detected by space agency reveals a planet with a large molten region and inner structures markedly different from Earth’s By Robert Lee Hotz and Merrill Sherman on the Wall Street Journal website on July 22, 2021 . |
This artist’s concept depicts the stationary NASA Mars lander known by the acronym InSight at work studying the interior of Mars. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Uncovering My Confederate Roots: Learning the truth about my great-great-grandfather made me commit to writing about African American history and battling racism by Amy Cohen on the Tablet website on July 27, 2021. Cemetery for Hebrew Confederate Soldiers at Hebrew Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia. Image: Bohemian Baltimore. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Tough Jews, Las Vegas, and the Legacy of Meyer Lansky: He left a disturbing legacy of inexcusable violence, but endures as a humanized figure of intense fascination for the American public by Larry Greenfield on the Jewish Journal website. Meyer Lansky in 1958, cropped. Image: Al Ravenna, World Telegram staff photographer. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Good morning, everyone. It’s not often that I introduce a brand-new poet to you in this column; in fact, this may be the very first time.
Felicity Sheehy’s name was sent to me by one of her former teachers, who offered high praise, so I took a look for myself and found it to be well-deserved. Her chapbook (and only book so far), “Losing the Farm,” published this year, won the Munster Literature Centre’s international chapbook prize. Her poems have appeared in The New Republic, The Yale Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Narrative, Blackbird, Shenandoah, The Adroit Journal, Alaska Quarterly Review, Colorado Review The Common, Literary Matters, and elsewhere. A distinguished publication record indeed for one so young (full disclosure: I didn’t ask her age).
Her work has won an Academy of American Poets Prize the Jane Martin Prize, and scholarships to Bread Loaf, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Community of Writers. Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: August 2, 2021
