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Happy Hour with David Lehman and Leah Umansky: Poetry Reading at NYU’s Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House [by Danielle Elizabeth Chin]
Poet Deborah Landau has launched many impressive initiatives since taking over as director of the NYU Creative Writing Program. One of the most community-minded and enjoyable is the Friday Night Happy Hour series to…
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Visual / Poetry (Day 4) — Poets in the project rooms [by Karen Schiff]
Over the past year, I've noticed a trendlet (not even a real trend, yet) of galleries exhibiting poets & writers in their project rooms — small, windowless rooms at the backs of the…
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My Father and I Look Around and Back from the Empire State Building Observation Deck; 1989 [by Alan Ziegler]
(Note: My father, Matthew Ziegler, who died in 2001, was born on October 14, 1920. In honor of his birthday, this piece (from the working draft of Based on True Life: A Memoir in Pieces)…
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Visual / Poetry (Day 3) — Words that must somehow be un-said
by guest blogger Karen Schiff The New School's room 510, at 66 West 12th Street, was an unexpectedly perfect place for last month's conversation between Edward Hirsch…
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David Lehman in Conversation with Stay Thirsty
THIRSTY: Was the poet Shelley correct that poetry can be a source of knowledge and power? DAVID LEHMAN: Yes. I agree with this statement and with most of the claims for poetry that Shelley makes in…
