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This Just In – mtvU Names New Poet Laureate Simin Behbahani
The Wall Street Journal reports that Iranian poet Simin Behbahani will succeed John Ashbery as mtvU's second poet laureate. Beginning Monday, mtvU will broadcast 19 short films featuring Behbahani's poems, translated by Farzaneh Milani…
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Kandinsky at the Guggenheim [by David Lehman]
I went to Kandinsky at the Guggenheimin the rain todaythe choice was immediateGelb Rot oder BlauI chose Gelb an aggressive triangle a peaceful square a cosmic circleand thou On August 1, 1914 hostilities broke…
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Willard Spiegelman on Winspear and the Dallas Arts District
<<On May 14, 1959, at the groundbreaking for what would become Lincoln Center, President Dwight D. Eisenhower hailed the event as "a great cultural adventure." A half-century later, it's easy to forget that Lincoln…
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We Shall Think And Listen [by Craig Morgan Teicher]
"Well, shall we/ think or listen? Is there a sound addressed/ not wholly to the ear?" –Williams Carlos Williams, "The Orchestra" The above is my favorite bit of poetry about music. Williams was thinking…
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Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, Nature and the logic of fate have brought us to this rain-soaked afternoon and while we may not grin, speaking generally, we will bear it. Given the bright drear outside I thought…
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Nin Andrews in New York [by Liz Howort]
In her retrospective reading at the New School last week, the poet Nin Andrews singled out the professor who most profoundly affected her creative work: “I took a class with David Lehman and…
