The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal

I did not attend last year's Pride Concert at San Francisco Opera , but I did attend this year's, which was announced as the second ...

detail of Anacreon, Sappho, Eros, and a Female Dancer by Étienne de Lavallée-Poussin, in the Utah Museum of Fine Arts , Salt Lake City

Well, this "no computer" thing is certainly dragging on . . . but I'm hoping to have good (or goodish) news soon. More Sapph...

This computer thing is dragging on much longer than I was hoping it would. Soon, soon, I keep telling myself: soon. . . . Here's some mo...

I have finally received the diagnosis on my computer, and the news is not good. Motherboard meltdown! So now I have to deal with the trouble...

Still no computer. I know, I know: how do I manage?   Where do I get this incredible inner strength? Here's another Sappho fragment, on...

Computer crisis continues. . . though I'm hopeful things will be up and running again soon. In the meantime, here's another fragment...

The computer crisis continues, so once again I call on Sappho (in the Mary Barnard translation) for the weekly poem: Many's the time ...

My computer has been dead in the water (metaphorically) since last Thursday. I am not sure when my regular contact with civilization (in the...

To a Song of Sappho Discovered in Egypt             And Sappho's flowers, so few,             But roses all.                        ...

I am still recovering from my summertime flu – I'm functional, but minimally – so here are some more Sappho fragments. This time there a...

I had something else planned for this week and then a nasty virus knocked me flat for several days, so I am once again calling on Sappho to ...

The Dancers Under the light of the Cretan moon The maidens are dancing together in tune, They dance together the dances of Crete, Round...

Sappho: Fragment 104, variations on a theme Part 1 may be found here and Part 2 here . Here are some poems that reference in various wa...

Sappho: Fragment 104 x 25 Part 1 may be found here  and part 3 here . The first entry is from the Loeb Classical Library; since their tr...

Sappho: Fragment 104 Evening Star Hesperos, you bring home all the bright dawn scattered, bring home the sheep, bring home the goat, b...

I now have a slick and spiffy new computer, but I had no time this week and I'm still getting used to the new computer interface, so her...

I'm still trying to deal with my computer situation, so here is a fragment by Sappho to tide us over. Must I remind you, Cleis, That...

Sappho: Fragment 47 x 14 The last time I held a Sapphopalooza, we looked at six different versions of what is possibly her only surviv...

Here is a villanelle: that is, a nineteen-line poem (five tercets and a concluding quatrain) that uses only two rhymes throughout and that u...