Good poetry is even better when you read it aloud. For his anthology, Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky selected works with just that in mind. Martha and Grant discuss a poem from the...
Homie and homeboy don’t come from Latin homo, confirming Rachel in Connecticut’s suspicions about an unsourced Wikipedia claim. The source is the English word home: homeboy goes back to the late 1800s in Black English, meaning a male friend from...
fed n.— «With all the studio gangstas, haters, and bammas that populate the feds, dudes be lunching. Like they say, “if it ain’t rough, it ain’t right.”» —“Homeboyz” by Seth Ferranti HoopsHype June...
