"We breathe, and then / vanish," proclaims a speaker in Once When Green, a new collection by accomplished poet Mark Irwin. While deeply personal, the book engages the earth, "gulls, / gray, quarreling air, their ha-ha-ha-ing at our trace / of garbage and carbon," and addresses mortality as well as the consequences of global warming-how it impacts ......
Reuben Ruby and Nathaniel Gordon II were born eleven months apart in 1798 and 1799 and spent much of their boyhoods roaming the noisy, bustling waterfront of Portland, Maine. They lived just blocks from one another, attended school together, and went to the same church with their families. But they were worlds apart, separated by family, culture, ......
Reuben Ruby and Nathaniel Gordon II were born eleven months apart in 1798 and 1799 and spent much of their boyhoods roaming the noisy, bustling waterfront of Portland, Maine. They lived just blocks from one another, attended school together, and went to the same church with their families. But they were worlds apart, separated by family, culture, ......
Ekphrasis, Gender, and the National Imagination in Nineteenth Century American Literature
When critics of poet Phillis Wheatley, the first African American to publish a collection of poetry, dismiss her work as derivative, they fail to see her writing as part of a new creative pantheon, sitting alongside other works that, like the popular copybooks in antebellum America, are structured as a conversation between artistic allies. ......
Ekphrasis, Gender, and the National Imagination in Nineteenth Century American Literature
When critics of poet Phillis Wheatley, the first African American to publish a collection of poetry, dismiss her work as derivative, they fail to see her writing as part of a new creative pantheon, sitting alongside other works that, like the popular copybooks in antebellum America, are structured as a conversation between artistic allies. ......
Good Housekeeping, Popular Modernism, and Middlebrow Reading
In its February 1926 issue, Good Housekeeping magazine introduced a column for its approximately one million subscribers called "Tasting and Testing Books." The column's author, Emily Newell Blair, would go on to produce ninety-one reading advice columns for the magazine between 1926 and 1934. During this period, Good Housekeeping became the most ......
Good Housekeeping, Popular Modernism, and Middlebrow Reading
In its February 1926 issue, Good Housekeeping magazine introduced a column for its approximately one million subscribers called "Tasting and Testing Books." The column's author, Emily Newell Blair, would go on to produce ninety-one reading advice columns for the magazine between 1926 and 1934. During this period, Good Housekeeping became the most ......
Football, Soccer, and the Origins of a National Myth
On Boston Common stands a monument dedicated to the Oneida Football Club. It honors the site where, in the 1860s, sixteen boys played what was then called the "Boston game"-an early version of football?in the?United States. The boys were largely the sons of upper-class Boston Brahmins, and they lived through the transformative periods of the Civil ......
Football, Soccer, and the Origins of a National Myth
On Boston Common stands a monument dedicated to the Oneida Football Club. It honors the site where, in the 1860s, sixteen boys played what was then called the "Boston game"-an early version of football?in the?United States. The boys were largely the sons of upper-class Boston Brahmins, and they lived through the transformative periods of the Civil ......
