There is a political-social movement known as “eco-feminism” that explores the link between the historical oppression of women and humankind’s degradation and domination of nature. I first learned the term in an environmental ethics course I took many years ago and was startled by the view provided by this particular filter for understanding the world’s […]
by Muriel Rukeyser
After you finish your work
after you do your day
after you’ve read your reading
after you’ve written your say —
you go down the street to the hot dog stand,
one block down and across the way.
On a blistering afternoon in East Harlem in the twentieth century.
Most of the windows are boarded up,
the rats run out of […]
My dog will eat anything.
Well, not anything exactly. She doesn’t seem to like broccoli.
If I change the phrasing to say “my dog will eat anything sweet,” however, you will not fault me for over-exaggeration. I have yet to find a sweet she doesn’t like.
I taught her well.
She also likes beer. […]
I have an unmitigated fondness for Belgian ales. They always have good body, but present as light on the tongue, and rarely bitter.
I also have great love for vinegars, especially those of the sweeter varieties (balsamic, apple cider, malt…). It’s that sweet-savory thing again.
So, when “Monk’s Café Flemish Sour” showed up on the […]