Committed to Memory

In 1995, the Academy commissioned poet John Hollander to assemble a poetry anthology that emphasized the pleasure of memorization and recitation. The result was Committed to Memory, published by Books & Co./Turtle Point, in conjunction with The Academy of American Poets.

NATO Summit Spurs Bucharest Ban on Stray Dogs, Puddles, Pranks

"'As recently as two weeks ago, the city of 2 million people suffered from construction site dust, traffic jams, stray dogs, beggars, potholes and mud puddles....You can feel an enormous difference. Everything works. Police control the traffic.

Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler

A SEA change in the consumption of a resource that Americans take for granted may be in store — something cheap, plentiful, widely enjoyed and a part of daily life. And it isn't oil. It's meat.

Wallace Stevens: 'The Snow Man'

All Things Considered, November 29, 2005 · The American poet Wallace Stevens died 50 years ago this year. Commentator Jay Keyser says Stevens wrote the best short poem in the English language, "The Snow Man." Stevens marries what the poem is about with the way that it is built.

The Obama Bargain

This article is such garbage. What was the WSJ thinking?

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Thoroughly Modern Do-Gooders

Donner Party Democrats

What Politicians Say When They Talk About Race

In Most Species, Faithfulness Is a Fantasy

"Among scarab beetles, males and females generally pair up to start a family, jointly gathering dung and rolling and patting it into the rich brood balls in which the female deposits her fertilized eggs....

Obsessed (Agog, Beset, Consumed, Driven, etc.)

Highlights: ""It's not a word I can put into feelings."

Postfeminism and Other Fairy Tales

$80,000 prostitution tabs and thick ankle jokes. Silda and Ashley. Hillary and Monica. Our elected misogynists. I'm newly bitter. I need to talk to some old school Feminists to understand what social cues I've been ignoring.

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