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Happy Birthday, Frank
It's quarter to three. . .No one in the place but youand me and the voice of a man singinghis lonely way through a song. . .He's right. Something's wrong. On the radioyou sing…
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Andrey Gritsman at the New School, Dec. 10, 2008 [by Meg McGuire]
Room 510 at The New School rumbled and danced on Wednesday evening with the Silver Age of Russian Poetry as presented by Andrey Gritsman, poet in both Russian and English, translator and eloquent ambassador…
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Thursday Thuribles [by H. L. Hix]
FREE! FOR BEST AMERICAN POETRY BLOG READERS ONLY! An exclamation mark after the word “free” usually signals that the word is being used in its economic sense. Today seems like my chance to drop…
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More Thursday Musings [by H. L. Hix]
Stephen Burt puts us onto the work of Vivek Narayanan, to a cluster of whose poems this link leads: http://www.openspaceindia.org/vivek_poem.htm. I especially love the buzzing presence of “the mosquito hour” in the “Oddessa, Texas”…
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Stephen Burt’s Answers [by H. L. Hix]
Stephen Burt teaches at Harvard; his new blog, and forthcoming book, are both called Close Calls with Nonsense (www.closecallswithnonsense.com– just launched). 1. What poet should be in Obama’s cabinet, and in what role? Since…
