-Read the poems on my Substack! -If there is a “West,” all Semites and Aryans are part of it -Arab Classicism and the House of Wisdom -Al Ma’arri -Afzaladdin -Moses Ibn Ezra -Sehnsucht -Ibn Iyad -Manjik -Dick Davis -Samuel Johnson’s “Rasselas” -Proto-Imagism -My long road to appreciating haiku -Zen in the Art of Archery -Matsuo Basho -Ethan McGuire -Kireji, Kigo, Jisei -Minamoto no Shitago -Howard Nemerov -Derek Walcott -Anne Stevenson -Mary Jo Salter -Motherhood and the feminine mystique -Jo...