Joyce Kilmer has just introduced me to two of my own ghosts. Earlier this month, I stumbled on a story Kilmer wrote in the New York Times in 1916 — when free verse was a dangerous new invention.
Read articleHonoring Richard Wilbur, a national poet in the Berkshire hills — BTW column
‘The morning air is all awash with angels.’ The early morning scene has stayed with me since high school. It isn’t etherial or oversweet. In the early light about dawn, a man wakes and hears the laundry going up to dry. ‘The eyes open to a cry of pulleys,’ concrete, […]
Read articleBerkshire ghosts walk in the hills
In the Berkshires, ghosts mourn lost family, and ghosts walk the dark places where they died. Some say a ghost rescued a child from the ice on Windsor Lake and brought her to shore warm and dry.
Read articleA keeper for every flame
People are moving this weekend in the Berkshires with inspirations from around the world — from a night game in Philly to a solo saxophone in New Orleans, from a scraggily lake house to a Paris club …
Read articleHerman Melville’s life takes on a new edge through women’s eyes
The maniacal sea captain, the mad-cap whaling ship, the crewmen from New England and the Ocean Islands sleeping peacefully in a lantern-lit tavern in New Bedford … Moby-Dick was a radical and visceral challenge when it came out, more than 150 years ago. Can the story hold as radical an edge today? Maybe, if women tell it.
Read articleBrooklyn ragas meet modern jazz at Mass MoCA
At sunset after a long day of work, Sameer Gupta remembers listening to a rippling music. ‘You feel it connecting,’ he said …
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