If this is your first time here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. You may also want to checkout our list of organizations and books if you want to learn more about what this site is about.Planning on seeing Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth? If you live in Arkansas (like your’s trully at BSB) your only chance to see it locally will be at Market St. in Little Rock on June 30th.
I just finally checked out the official website and was very impressed. Organized, clean, professional, …

I admit that I had not read much of Stanley Kunitz’s poetry before hearing of his death recently on the radio. But as a reader and a former student of poetry, I had heard the name many times, perhaps from one of the many books he edited as well as wrote. My collection of poetry at home contains none of his books and I found only a few of his poems in my wife’s copy of the Norton Anthology of American Poetry.
My reaction after the radio story, like many people …

Last month The Capla Kesting Fine Art Gallery in New York showed what many are celebrating as a “pro-life first”, a sculpture of a nude Britney Spears giving birth to her son Sean Preston. “Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston” by Daniel Edwards is a romanticized depiction of Spears in graceful labor with her firstborn.
Edwards said this about his sculpture, “Britney provides inspiration for those struggling with the “right choice”. She was number one with Google last year, with good reason — people are inspired by the beauty …