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78The Five Elements in Chinese Thought and Culture
The five elements (五行）in Chinese thought are fire (火）, earth（土）, metal（金）, water（水）, and wood （木）. Rather than viewing the five elements as separate or competing systems, they should be seen as five phases in a...
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75The Ingredients of Good Haiku
I've done a fair bit of haiku writing over the years, even recently having had a series of designer art pieces built around 30 of my haiku. Even so, I know that I have a long way to go before I can say I am an expert in this form that, on its...
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64Interview: David Kopaska-Merkel, Speculative Poet
David C. Kopaska-Merkel wears many hats. As a poet, editor, acting president of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, geologist, fiction writer, collaborator (on writing projects, I mean), and avid supporter of other poets and writers,...
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78Ye Shengtao: The Suzhou Garden
The following is a translation of Ye Shengtao's essay "The Suzhou Garden." It is famous amongst mainland Chinese, and is often assigned for students to read in school. The translation is my own, after I was assigned the original text for reading...
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72Interview: Kathryn J. Bain, Romance Writer
Kathryn J. Bain was born in Spokane, Washington, then immediately shipped to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho where she lived until she graduated from North Idaho Jr. College. After that, Bain packed her bags and moved to Boise, where she lived for two years...
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64Cyborg Chimera (a poetry collection)
Cyborg Chimera, released in October 2009, is Bryant's first poetry collection. It centers on ideas of hybridity, the subconscious, dreams, programming, reality, and illusion. It contains 42 poems, some of which have appeared in magazines,...
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70Slings and Arrows television series
Note:This first appeared on my blog in 2007. It was removed after some technical difficulties at that site, and so I am reposting it here. It was just a couple of months ago that I first heard about...
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67Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys
Neil Gaiman's 2005 novel Anansi Boys is a clever tale of the sons of Anansi, the spider who often appears as a man (no, not Spiderman) in West African and Caribbean folklore. In the traditional stories involving Anansi, he is the trickster, much...
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71The Forbidden City, Beijing
a painting of the Forbidden City, as seen in the Jade Garden Hotel, Beijing The Forbidden City, lying at the heart of Beijing, is one of China's most impressive sites to visit. Serving as the imperial palace during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the...
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71John Wycliffe and the Wycliffe Translation of the Bible
Dr. John Wycliffe lived in the 1300s, and was one of the men responsible for helping to bring the Dark Ages to an end in England. Despite serious opposition from the Catholic church, Wycliffe fought tirelessly and fearlessly for the right to...
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