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Happy Birthday, JA
John Ashbery writing "Pyrography" circa 1976 [painting by Larry Rivers] Just Walking Around What name do I have for you? Certainly there is no name for youIn the sense that the stars have namesThat…
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Happy Birthday John Ashbery [by Moira Egan]
[photo Giovanni Giovannetti / Effigie] For your reading pleasure on this auspicious date, following are excerpts from an interview that poet Massimo Gezzi conducted with John Ashbery for the Italian journal POESIA, the prestigious…
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Born on this day: Gerard Manley Hopkins of the “terrible” sonnets
Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee;Not untwist–slack they may be–these last strands of manIn me ór, most weary, cry I can no more. I can;Can something, hope, wish day come,…
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Covering covers this week! [by Phoebe Putnam]
Hello, all! Absolutely excited to be by your side this week! Let's get started, shall we? POETRY COVERS are what I've been asking a handful of incredible poets about over the past few…
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Phoebe Putnam, Guest Blogger July 27-August 2
This week we welcome Phoebe Putnam as our guest blogger. Phoebe teaches in the History and Literature concentration at Harvard, and recently completed her first manuscript, Land Lies in Water, on the panoramic vantage…
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“Symphony on Sunday, with Coffee” [by Allison Contey]
Symphony on Sunday, With Coffee The world is awash in douche bags:Hollywood and Citigroup, smoking Sean Penn,a CEO’s extravagant commode.Baby-eyed little bauble asks, why so moody? Yes, Ollie—we neglect the living:Alice Tully Hall reopened…
