Monthly Archives: June 2013

The Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Ellen Akins

Added August 12, 2015: In a wonderful rambling piece on inspiration by Joyce Carol Oates in the New York Review of Books, I came upon this rendering of Rumsfeld’s famous “unknowns” remarks by poet Hart Seely: More often found poetry … Continue reading →

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Hemingway, Carver, Iceberg Principle Less Is More . . . Understood?

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Ellen Akins

One of my MFA students, doing one of the brief essays on craft we have our writers do at Fairleigh Dickinson, was writing about The Old Man and the Sea and cited Hemingway’s “Iceberg Principle” as he laid it out … Continue reading →

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Writers in Hollywood: Nathanael West and William Faulkner

Posted on June 13, 2013 by Ellen Akins

 “[T]he best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel.”–William Faulkner Turning off a recorded show today, I came across the 1940 movie “Let’s Make Music” directed by Leslie Goodwins (?), with a … Continue reading →

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