Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Michael Fried gives us a vision of personified animals in his poem “Care,” which he dedicates to Allen Grossman, one of the lead...

Let’s rejoin our story in the session we did with Emma Barker , who led us through a discussion of Fried’s intervention into ei...

This fall, I was so fortunate as to participate in a seminar on art critic/historian Michael Fried. Without adornmen...

 I wrote this piece a couple months ago under commission from a fancy-pants art magazine. I submitted it and they sent it back, complet...

Oh my poor, forlorn blog! How I have let you slide in past months. Nary a word you have hear from me, I observe, since October. For sham...

Near the beginning of Marilynne Robinson’s 1980 novel Housekeeping , narrator Ruth Stone describes an act of violent substitution that re...