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A perfect storm for revitalizing compassion for the natural world: Robert Hass and E. O. Wilson on Nature and Poetry [by Alissa Fleck]
Robert HassL: Robert Hass (Christian Science Monitor/Getty) R: E.O. Wilson (Cindy Ord/Getty) Who better to engage intellectually with nature-inspired poet Robert Hass about the intersections of poetry and the natural world than Edward…
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Thank you, Dave. bang! plop! crash! (Remembering Dave Brubeck) by Lew Saul
I escaped the public school system and spent my senior year of high school at the Interlochen Arts Academy in northern Michigan, where I met 50% of the Brubeck kids – Kathy and Danny…
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“That will be interesting too” John Ashbery at the New School [by Philip Brunst]
On Saturday December 8, John Ashbery, hailed by Harold Bloom as “America’s greatest living poet,” read from his new collection of poems Quick Question (Ecco 2012), released this week, in front of a filled-to–capacity…
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Happy Birthday, Emily Dickinson by Anthony Madrid (via facebook)
EMILY DICKINSON (12/10/1830) JEMIMA on time-a and Jiminy CricketsonHappy birthday, Emily Dickinson MEMORY LANE at the end of a stickinsonHappy birthday, Emily Dickinson Wimbledon won! Demolition, come quickinsonHappy birthday, Emily Dickinson Brick upon brickinson,…
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Tonight at KGB: Mark Strand & Malachi Black
KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present… Mark Strand & Malachi Black Monday, December 10 Hosted by Matthew Yeager and John Deming Reading starts at 7:30pm Admission is FREE www.KgbBar.com 85 East 4th…
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A Tribute to Louise Glück: December 14, 2012
Louise Glück (c) Gasper Tringale In celebration of former Academy of American Poets Chancellor Louise Glück’s Poems 1962-2012, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux and Ecco Press), poets Frank Bidart, Dana Levin, Robert Pinsky, Peter…
