My essay about heartbreak, "Speaking of Sorrow," is featured on Vox Populi today, alongside work by John Keats, Frida Kahlo, and Doug Andersen . . . "a Vox Populi day devoted to sadness," as the editor said in his note to me.

His comment makes me think of Frost, who wrote that poets have "a vested interest in sorrow." So it's coincidental that this piece appears just before I leave for Franconia. I had been toying with reading it there: something about it felt right for the spirit of Frost's barn.