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DL on FS at Cooper Union December 3rd: in the Great Hall of Cooper Union
Correction: The talk will be given at the Great Hall of Cooper Union at 6:30 PM on Thursday, 3 December. Previous announcements gave a different venue. In concert with the Count Basie Orchestra…
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A Thickness of Particulars: The Poetry of Anthony Hecht [by Jonathan F. S. Post]
In a recent Best American Poetry blog, “On Meditation,” by Victoria Kelly (October 5, 2015), I found myself touched by her reference to Richard Wilbur’s “beautiful, slim volume,” The Beautiful Changes, published in 1947.…
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Jonathan Post, Guest Author November 23-27
This week we welcome Jonathan Post as our guest author. On the faculty at Yale in the late 1970s, Jonathan Post joined the UCLA English Department in 1980, where he has served as Chair of…
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What Really Happened: November 22, 1963 [by David Lehman]
Every year on this day I think unfailingly of three things: — that today is Hoagy Carnichael's birthday, which I imagine him celebrating quietly with a glass of bourbon as he tickles the ivories…
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Reflections on a Reading: Ed Hirsch and Emily Fragos [by Karen Steinmetz]
Emily Fragos and Edward Hirsch, center, shared a post-reading moment with (left) Jennifer Franklin, Program Director, and (right) Jewel Kinch-Thomas, Executive Director When Edward Hirsch invited Emily Fragos to read with him in the…
