Spy Poetry: Touch Me by Stanley Kunitz
Editor’s Note: I have always loved this poem, and I was privileged to hear Kunitz read it at the Dodge Poetry Festival many years ago. His voice is lost to us now, but not this poignant, lovely tribute to a love sustained over the years. Summer is late, my heart. Words plucked out of the […]
In Kennedy’s Rooms By James Dissette
Note: This recollection was published twelve year ago. While I recall more details, I thought it would be worth letting it stand as is and sharing once more. —James Dissette On Thanksgiving Day in 1963, six days after the Kennedy assassination in Dallas, I watched the 27 second Zapruder film in its unexpurgated entirety, projected […]
Rembrandt Comes to America: Masterpieces in Black and White—Prints from the Rembrandt House Museum by Anke Van Wagenberg, PhD
I recently attended the opening of the exhibition Rembrandt: Masterpieces in Black and White—Prints from the Rembrandt House Museum G. It was great to be part of the opening events of the American Federation of Arts & the Rembrandt House exhibition now on view at The Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC. A fellow […]
Chesapeake Lens: “Cooper’s Hawk” By Mike Dougherty
Maybe not the king, but surely a prince of the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge. “Cooper’s Hawk” by Mike Dougherty.