Went to Italy with Toan to celebrate our 40th anniversary, a trip planned when the world seemed a friendlier place. Despite anxiety over the orange felon’s machinations against Canada, we were saturated with beauty. Here is a piece I wrote trying to sum up the strange tension I felt between present and past the whole time we were away. ! We had a wonderful time

Since I am on a quotation spree, here is another, this one from Wendell Berry, who died two days ago at 92.

Susan Glickman2026-09-03T11:33:48-04:00September 3, 2026|

At a Vietnam war protest in 1968 he said that as a [...]

Susan Glickman2026-09-01T10:25:34-04:00September 1, 2026|

"Inspiration is for amateurs—the rest of us just show up and get [...]

Susan Glickman2026-08-20T11:09:33-04:00August 20, 2026|

From a wonderful interview with Lisa Robertson in The Los Angeles Review [...]

Susan Glickman2026-08-07T17:24:23-04:00August 6, 2026|

and discovered that there were 78 pieces of short prose on that [...]

Susan Glickman2026-08-01T09:06:35-04:00August 1, 2026|

The title is Bewilderness. It will be my eighteenth book overall, and [...]

Susan Glickman2026-07-25T18:31:10-04:00July 20, 2026|

sent almost daily now by scammers trying to trick me into [...]

Susan Glickman2026-07-07T11:41:28-04:00July 7, 2026|

This was taken at Cape St Mary's, the largest colony of seabirds [...]

Susan Glickman2026-06-10T13:58:55-04:00June 10, 2026|

A Teeny Tiny Hint!

Susan Glickman2026-06-10T13:59:26-04:00June 9, 2026|

I have never responded to a periodical that has rejected a [...]

Susan Glickman2026-06-01T13:41:00-04:00May 24, 2026|

Was lucky enough to participate in this sold-out event (for those [...]