Michael Rosen lends his time and experience to show how we can use one of the most fundamental elements of literature to engage children with: poetry! Read More

"The Poetry is in the Pity of War" — a look at the warrior-poets, their craft, and the meanings in the trenches. Read More

This is what happens when the Internet plug is pulled just when you start to get a good riot organized. Read More

A brief summary of lessons learned on writing. Read More

A publisher publicly defends a serial plagiarizer, as reported by Gawker. Is Internet blogging and publishing out of control when it comes to literary theft and appropriation? Read More

Scholar, sports writer, and general athletics enthusiast Braham Dabscheck reviews Rosenwald's presentation of revered sports writer Gay Talese—a man concerned more about the human saga than he is with titles or winning streaks. Read More

Find out which child-at-heart writer will join us next Monday! Read More

How yesterday's literary outlook of the future can really shape the future—by some means or another. Read More

Cheappuccino, n. This is an homage to the wife, who is one of those people that loves coffee. Any coffee. She would make a Navy chief petty officer proud, the way she heats up three-day-old half-caf from Walmart, her once porcelain mug ringed with the dregs of BP. Her frugality is matched only by her [...] Read More

Smellfungus, n.: Someone who is good at finding fault in everything and everyone. Read More