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Anniversary of Walt Whitman’s Death [Terence Winch]
131 years ago today, Walt Whitman died at age 72. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Here is one of his most famous exhortations, from the preface to Leaves of Grass: "This is what you shall do; Love the…
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Maurice Manning: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
photo by Steve Cody ______________________________________________________________________ The Slate Way back, the…
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Friday, March 31, 2023, at 6:30 pm: An Evening with Terence Winch at the Arts Club of Washington [by Stacey Lehman]
Put this on your calendar and be there! Terence Winch, September, 2022. Photo by Tom Goodwin An Evening of Poetry By and With Terence Winch OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Friday, March 31, 2023, at…
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Two poems by Lee Upton from “The Day Every Day Is”
POLITICAL AMBITION A pig swallowing an entireapple treethen sleeping under coversPolitics must be hardYou can’t step intothe same politics twiceI take off my bootsWhen I try to put them back onthey won’t let mePolitics…
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Willis Reed, Legendary Center of the World Champion N. Y. Knicks, RIP [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]
Basketball great Willis Reed spoke about his literacy project. David was eager to get his predictions for the upcoming Knicks season. In 2003, then chairman of the NEA Dana Gioia, invited David to join…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: March 22, 2023
Did you ever wonder who your favorite poet would be if she weren’t a poet? A rock star maybe? Here’s Anne Waldman (part Debra Harry and part Madonna) in a music video from 1982! …
