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Bob Dylan meets Archibald MacLeish
Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982) won three Pulitzer prizes, two for poetry and one for his play about Job, J.B, which also won a Tony Award. His collected poems won the National Book Award. Like some...
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Poetry & journalism
“Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.”—John Updike As with David Shields, when Archibald MacLeish talks about “poetry” he means poetry in the larger sense...
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The reporter as artist
“What is uttered from the heart alone, will win the hearts of others to your own.” —Goethe “I was signed up in the Writer’s Workshop at Iowa, so I was a poet and they didn’t let you cross over. If …...
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Space cadets
Poetic space program accounts showcase artistic journalism’s value. [Into the wild blue yonder: the historic Apollo moonshot, 1969.][ Why you won’t read his space book but should.]Once I met a woman...
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The noble Bob
[Many guises: During 1975’s Rolling Thunder tour, when I first saw him.] Bob Dylan’s genius & oceanic work have been on my mind. He not busy being born is busy dying.—Bob Dylan, “It’s Alright, Ma...
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