In Book VI of the Aeneid Virgil interrupts the main action of Aeneas and his men --escaping from Troy and founding Rome--to tell a very different sort of story. Aeneas risks everything to go down into the underworld, the land of the dead.

Hi all. So many of us were struck by the song "You Want it Darker," the title song from Leonard Cohen's last album. The curious mixture of dark prophecy and spiritual depth made the song both inspiring and puzzling, especially its refrain, "You want it

Hi all, Doris asked me to contribute a poet's column of the eForum, so here is a first of an occasional offering. I welcome members to send me thoughts on poems (including your own) that seem to relate to the psychoanalytic process. I thought I might