Last year, cooler weather caused our student body here at Big Southern State to skitter for cover under leggings and sweaters that were juuussst barely below the bum in length. This year, the ladies are leaving nothing to the imagination. I have been greeted this morning by the sight of at least ten perky rear-ends apparently clothed in nothing but some tight synthetic fiber blends and topped by wee puffy vests. Apparently the ladies have parallel circulation, like ducks. As blood descends the legs, it simultaneously warms the blood returning to the body and cools off itself. (See here for a more nuanced and scientific explanation.) I can think of no other physiology that makes it logical to wrap yourself in many layers of fur and feathers whilst leaving the leg-flesh so Read more
Experimental Poet Ken Chen to Read October 28 at Rose O’Neill Literary House, Washington College
CHESTERTOWN—Ken Chen, a young poet praised for emotionally piercing, often wry poems that chronicle his relationship with his immigrant family, will read from his work Thursday, October 28 at 4:30 p.m. at the Rose O’Neill Literary House, Washington College. Chen’s collection Juvenilia won the 2009 Yale Younger Poets competition, the oldest annual literary award in the United States. Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Louise Gluck, one of the competition’s judges, wrote that Chen’s writings “have isolated and dramatized the profound dilemma of the adult’s relation to childhood in poems of riveting intelligence and sharp wit and profound beauty.” The poet “manages to be both exhilaratingly modern (anti-catharsis, anti-epiphany) while at the same time never losing his Read more
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