The New Millennium Problem
Sun News presents this poem from 1999, for those who fondly remember the turn of the millennium, and for those who missed it: Where will you be when the…
Sell, Sell, Sell
Subliminal seduction media mogul Admen clad in Bran muffin suits A holiday spirit To sell a line A consumerist line Waiting, buying Whilst stuffing their eyes Snowballs hypocrisy On…
Orpheus in Macedonia
Can a mythical figure have a real grave? That is the provocative question posed by Tomasz Mojsik in this book about Orpheus. Mojsik is associate professor at the University of…
Four Perspectives on the Power of Poetry
I. A man sits on a park bench. The wind ruffles his hair, But the rest of him is undisturbed. II. The wind blows through the branches Of trees, swaying…
Apples and Oranges
A man inclines himself towards The idea. He lifts it off the table and raises It to his mouth. His mouth opens and his teeth Are like thirty-two stars in…
Are the Humanities Dying?
It’s a tired topic by now that the humanities are dying. Some people say that this is because the humanities are an ossified way of looking at reality and at…