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'Waiting for Poe' in Westford, Massachusetts

In front of the Parish Center for the Arts in Westford, Massachusetts, is a multi-piece bronze and stone sculpture called "Waiting for Poe". It memorializes the city's connection to Edgar Allan Poe, the famous poet and horror author.  Poe visited Westford

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The Unexpected Afterlife of Autobiography of a Face

I first learned about Lucy Grealy in Leslie Jamison’s The Empathy Exams. Grealy had written a book with a title that Jamison had, while an English student at Harvard in the early 2000s, imagined using for her own memoir: Autobiography of a Face. The fact

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Gazofilacio.

Via Laudator Temporis Acti, a quote from Clive James, “Gianfranco Contini”: There is an untranslatable Italian word for the mental bank account you acquire by memorizing poetry: it is a gazofilacio. Contini believed that an accumulation of such treasure w

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