The Wire: A Site for the MLA Commons Community
Faced with some of life’s most painful moments poetry can reassure us that we are not alone – others have suffered too. But a great poem also allows us to make sense of feelings that might otherwise be a searing amorphous mass somewhere deep inside us. Great poetry makes us…
Thomas Lawrence Long’s site Literature, Medicine, Medical Humanities is as old as MLA Commons, with its first post dating from December 2012. Over two hundred posts later, the site is still going strong. An early adopter of the Commons, Thomas immediately saw the platform’s potential in helping him gauge interest—and build a…