A journal of rediscovery
– The wooden ancestor tablet presiding over my fourth uncle’s ancestral altar tells the complete history of my father’s family—a history that I didn’t discover until my mid-twenties. Early in my life, my father wanted to plant the seed of imagination and poetic lineage in my mind. On the eve
– Last week, when I’d had it up to here with working on my graduate thesis, I wandered off down the Internet’s rabbit trails and ended up reading about England’s bog bodies. Gross, I know. Apparently Northern Europe is littered with peat bogs which over thousands of years have accumulated
Continue readingSkull Talk: Bridges Among Death, Time, and Art
– Poor Yorick: A Journal of Rediscovered Objects in collaboration with our partner, the Danbury Railway Museum, is spotlighting a caboose from the Museum’s collection. How does this object inspire you? Please submit your responses to us. We accept all forms of literary genres and electronically reproducible visual or audio
Continue readingSpecial Call for Submissions: April 3, 2015 – June 19, 2015
– PY: You have written a generous historical document about an artifact that is “under the nose” of golfers at Brae Burn Country Club every day. How did the ruins of the Westchester Northern catch your attention? VK: I’ve been associated with Brae Burn since 1983, which dovetailed with
Continue readingInterview with Vincent P. Kmetz author of The Ghost of Westchester Northern
– Poor Yorick and our museum partner, the Mattatuck Museum, are proud to announce the winner of our first Special Call for Submissions. We received poems, short stories, digital videos, and essays. “Victorian in Winter,” a poem by Martin Willitts, Jr., was chosen to accompany the image “Victorian in Winter,” a
Continue readingPeter Poskas’s Painting “Victorian in Winter” as an Inspiration
A Q&A by Melissa Gordon – PY: Your poem “On Leonardo’s ‘Figures To Represent Labor’” was inspired by the drawing “Figures To Represent Labor” by Leonardo Da Vinci. This drawing is part of the Royal Trust Collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Did you see this drawing in person?
Continue readingInterview with Brett Foster on his poem “On Leonardo’s ‘Figures To Represent Labor’”
– Billy Lee Brammer’s The Gay Place, a collection of three related political novels, received national acclaim when it was published in 1961. Each novel follows a very Lyndon-Johnson-like Governor Arthur Fenstemaker who directs the fate of both his loved ones and the state of Texas. This was Brammer’s first
Continue readingFlashes of Past: The Politics of Writing a Political Novel
– In a box of old textbooks and odd paperbacks, this unusual book, The American Ship-Master’s Guide: Seaman’s Manual useful to merchants, ship-masters, supercargoes, mariners, and merchant’s clerks, was found in New London, Connecticut in the 1970s. Since that time, the book has been part of my family collection. I’m
Continue readingHistorical Books and Their Personal Histories
– In 1781, George Washington was on the march toward Virginia, and the British devised a plan to draw him back to New England. General Sir Henry Clinton, the commander of the British forces, ordered General Benedict Arnold to sail around Long Island and up the Thames River in Connecticut.
Continue readingSkull Talk: Fort Griswold, Groton, Connecticut
A Q&A by Melissa Gordon – PY: We understand you encountered an army of terracotta warriors in China! They were buried with Qin Shi Huang Di, the First Emperor of Qin in 210 BCE and unearthed in the 1970s. We have published a series of photographs you took of these
Continue readingInterview with Photographer Holly Gordon on the Terracotta Warriors of Xi’an