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“Encore” [by Laurance Wieder]
Thank you. I love To sing at first light, Pluck a gut string In the watches of the night: A little song, with rocks And sea, and sky, without Confusion of the parts. …
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Sergey Yursky – The Seasons [by Lera Auerbach]
During the time of the pandemic, I am thinking of people that have inspired me and my work. On March 16 Sergey Yursky would have celebrated his 85th birthday. He died last year.…
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“For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground / And tell sad stories of the death of kings. . .”
No matter where; of comfort no man speak:Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;Make dust our paper and with rainy eyesWrite sorrow on the bosom of the earth,Let's choose executors and talk of…
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Roman Bridge [by Donald Revell]
One image the epidemic paintsOnto the old mind: a Roman bridge,Intact and defaced, slowingThe brown flood below it. The old mindHad a use for water and for the gods in it.Waterborne or airborne, epidemicIs…
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Sometimes You Get Lucky [by David Lehman]
Sometimes you get luckyand get to adoptHarold Arlen and Jerome Kernas Uncle Harry and Uncle Jerryin the choir of the synagogueyou went to as a boy. I heard the tekiya of the shofarin the…
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John Ashbery explains “These Lacustrine Cities” on Bruce Kawin’s Radio Show (1966)
Jeff Hipsher has posted this excellent interview that Bruce Kawin conducted with John Ashbery in 1966. At the time Bruce hosted a half-hour radio show, "Literary Workshop," on WKCR, Columbia's radio station. (He was…
