Stephen AltmanSep 22, 20212 minThe Perfect PoemThis is the first full day of autumn. You shouldn't let it pass without reading--preferably aloud, under an old elm with your own true...
Stephen AltmanSep 20, 20212 minCat!I'm embarrassed, I must say, to have forgotten any mention of cats in a story set, in large part, in the Non-Catholic Cemetery and on the...
Stephen AltmanSep 10, 20212 minJohn Keats, a Sunset PoetThe weather (if not the climate) is getting better here in Shepherdstown. Because autumn's arriving, and because John Keats wrote "To...
Stephen AltmanAug 25, 20213 min"I feel as if we've met somewhere . . ."I was out walking earlier today, putting steps on the Fitbit before the real August heat set it--when a question popped into my head: ...