With Amazon listing my upcoming book A Rat Is A Pig Is A Dog Is A Boy for presale, I thought I should set up a blog solely devoted to the animal rights issue. We discuss those matters here at SHS, of course, and will still. But it is only one piece of the human exceptionalism pie—albeit, an important piece—and I have found it difficult give the matter proper consideration here given all the other issues coming down the pike. So, as if I didn’t have anything else to do, I launched it today.
For anyone interested, here’s the link.
Lift My Chin, Lord
Lift my chin, Lord,Say to me,“You are not whoYou feared to be,Not Hecate, quite,With howling sound,Torch held…
Letters
Two delightful essays in the March issue, by Nikolas Prassas (“Large Language Poetry,” March 2025) and Gary…
Spring Twilight After Penance
Let’s say you’ve just comeFrom confession. Late sunPours through the budding treesThat mark the brown creek washing Itself…