Line of the Week

"I settled down on a hurt as big as Robert Mitchum and listened to Lucinda Williams."

—Vic Chesnutt

Line of the Week

"My grandmother was dead serious. Her sense of humor was a secret."

—Gil Scott-Heron, in Alec Wilkinson's Aug. 9 New Yorker profile of him

Tadpoles!

Thanks to the Everyday Poems for City Sidewalk project in St. Paul, Minnesota.