Walt Whitman

The Ice Storm, One Year Later

Albert Imperato | Posted 12.07.2009 | New York


Albert Imperato

It was almost exactly a year ago that Mother Nature gave us a very different gift: the worst ice storm that this area of the Hudson Valley had seen in the past quarter century.

A Jersey Girl and the Poet Springsteen

Laura Baudo Sillerman | Posted 10.24.2009 | Entertainment


Laura Baudo Sillerman

Bruce Springsteen played the last concert ever to be played in Giants Stadium on Friday, October 9. The Stadium is slated for demolition this year.

The Dharma of Celebrity Death

Dean Sluyter | Posted 08.23.2009 | Entertainment


Dean Sluyter

Everybody dies. Why, from a spiritual point of view, are celebrity deaths such an extra big deal?

No One Who Was Normal Ever Made History: A Tribute to Michael Jackson

James Arthur Ray | Posted 07.29.2009 | Entertainment


James Arthur Ray

Michael's life, when considered within the broader scope of highly creative people throughout history, was not really that unusual after all.

On the Occasion of President Obama's Wreath for the Confederate Memorial

Ronald Maxwell | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics


Ronald Maxwell

Obama, to his everlasting honor, and in keeping with the tradition of his predecessors, on Memorial Day just two weeks ago sent a wreath to Moses Ezekiel's monument to the Confederate dead.

Abe Lincoln, my Historical Boyfriend

Jamie Stiehm | Posted 05.16.2009 | Living


Jamie Stiehm

President Barack Obama isn't the only 40-something Abraham Lincoln admirer in Washington, D.C. We each love his way with words and his prairie populist provenance, but let's just say the 16th president is my historical boyfriend.

Selling Your Soul to the Devil for Fun and Profit

Stephen Mo Hanan | Posted 04.07.2009 | Home


Stephen Mo Hanan

Recently in New York I went to a preview performance of a rarely staged piece of music theater called "The Damnation of Faust," by Hector Berlioz. In ...

Walt Whitman on the Blagojevich Scandal (and Maybe Also the Auto Bailout Mess)

John Seery | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics


John Seery

Walt Whitman, speaking from beyond the grave, with an eye toward our current ills.

There is an "I" in Team

Ben Fractenberg | Posted 01.09.2009 | Politics


Ben Fractenberg

I received a text message the night of Obama's historic victory thanking me for my involvement in the campaign. "This victory is all because of you," ...

A Poem For Election Day

John Lundberg | Posted 12.03.2008 | Living


John Lundberg

Walt Whitman lived in that tenuous time before flag pins when threshing the patriots from the terrorist-loving socialists was a difficult business. S...

Poetry Of Loss

John Lundberg | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living


John Lundberg

My grandmother passed away last week, and my family asked if I would read a poem during the service. While I wanted to do it for them, I didn't want to do it.