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Ending a Poem (Part I): Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye
This is the first of three squibs about the ends of poems, a subject I've always liked, and about which I'm working on an essay for the new Akron Series in Contemporary Poetics. As…
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Stocks and Bonds for Poets
Mindful of how many poets and poetry lovers plead financial ignorance and sometimes even boast of their ineptness when it comes to managing their own money, we recently spoke to two of the last…
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Happy Birthday, Paul Henreid!
Actor Paul Henreid was born on this day in 1905 in Trieste, Austria-Hungary. (The son of a Swedish nobleman banker, his name at birth was Paul Georg Julius Hernreid Ritter Von Wassel-Waldingau.) Look up…
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Patricia Carlin presents a poem by Nin Andrews
This week I’ve selected “Hoi Polloi” by Nin Andrews (Barrow Street, Winter 2009). The poem first appeared on line as part of the project “Starting Today: Poems for the First Hundred Days,” co-edited by…
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I. The 30 Films of Akira Kurosawa: Nora inu (Stray Dog) [1949] (by Lewis Saul)
Ed note: For the next several weeks, composer and film aficionado Lewis Saul has agreed to supply us with in-depth commentary about the films of Akira Kurosawa, now showing in an extended festival at…
