by JS O’Brien Today is April 23, the day we celebrate as William Shakespeare’s birthday – though this date is derived by counting backwards from his known christening date, so his actual […]
WordsDay: New Shakespeare Play—Review: All the World's a Grave by William Shakespeare (sort of)

For a guy who’s been dead for nearly four hundred years, it’s pretty amazing that Shakespeare is still cranking out the hits. And I’m not talking about great productions of his classic […]
ArtSunday: Impressionism exhibit offers a lesson in tradition and rebellion
[An artist] should copy the masters and re-copy them, and after he has given every evidence of being a good copyist, he might then reasonably be allowed to do a radish, perhaps, […]
VerseDay: The poet in love
I’ve long been convinced of two truths regarding poetry: 1: The easiest thing in the world to write is a love poem. 2: The hardest thing in the world to write is […]