Contributor
Diane Ackerman
Diane Ackerman is the author of 20 works of poetry and nonfiction, including, most recently, “An Alchemy of Mind” and “Origami Bridges: Poems of Psychoanalysis and Fire.”
Recent Writing
Excerpt from The Moon by Whale Light
On Nature
In Praise of Vanilla
Healing
Language at Play
All language is poetry. Each word is a small story, a thicket of meaning. We ignore the picturesque origins of words when we utter them; conversation would grind to a halt if we visualized flamingos whenever someone referred to a flight of stairs.Issue 24/25
Attention Please, This Island Earth
One day a Stone Age tribe in Papua, New Guinea, greeted a charter pilot with bananas for his airplane and a desire to know what sex it was.Issue 23
Language at Play
In Fact / Issue 15 / Issue 24/25
