April 7, 2013
A Bookmark by Tom Disch Four years ago I started reading Proust. Although I’m past the halfway point, I still Have seven hundred pages of reduced Type left before I reach the end. I will Slog through. It can’t get much more dull than what Is happening now: he’s buying crepe-de-chine Wraps and a real, […]
April 6, 2013
“It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.” – William Carlos Williams
April 6, 2013
The Saddest Poem by Pablo Neruda I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. . Write, for instance: “The night is full of stars, and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance.” . The night wind whirls in the sky and sings. . I can write the saddest poem of all […]
April 5, 2013
Popular and Pulitzer-Prize winning film reviewer Roger Ebert died Thursday after a long battle with cancer at the age of 70. Film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, Ebert was well known for his trademark thumbs-up/thumbs-down PBS television show he co-hosted first with the late Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune and then with […]
April 5, 2013
Harriet by Robert Lowell A repeating fly, blueback, thumbthick–so gross, it seems apocalyptic in our house– whams back and forth across the nursery bed manned by a madhouse of stuffed animals, not one a fighter. It is like a plane dusting apple orchards or Arabs on the screen– one of the mighty… one of the […]
April 4, 2013
We are pleased to introduce local photographer Manuel Igual Alonso as the next artist in our ongoing exhibition series Local Art @ EPL. From now through the end of April, his collection My Left Eye will be on display on the 2nd floor of EPL’s Main Library. A native of Madrid who splits time between […]
April 4, 2013
A Dictionary in the Dark by Naomi Shihab Nye A retired general said “the beautiful thing about it” discussing war. We were making “progress” in our war effort. “The appropriate time to launch the bombers” pierced the A section with artillery and arrows as “awe” huddled in a corner clutching its small chest. Someone else […]
April 3, 2013
The Angel by William Blake I dreamt a dream! What can it mean? And that I was a maiden Queen Guarded by an Angel mild: Witless woe was ne’er beguiled! . And I wept both night and day, And he wiped my tears away; And I wept both day and night, And hid from him […]
April 2, 2013
When I’m at the 2nd floor service desk at Evanston Public Library, I can look up to left and see a sign high up on the wall stating that this is the Reader’s Services department. That apostrophe–whether it belongs or not–was seriously debated when the signage for the library was in planning. One could argue […]
April 2, 2013
Happiness by Raymond Carver So early it’s still almost dark out. I’m near the window with coffee, and the usual early morning stuff that passes for thought. When I see the boy and his friend walking up the road to deliver the newspaper. They wear caps and sweaters, and one boy has a bag over […]
