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Columbia To Host Richard Howard Tribute March 31st
<<< Columbia University will be holding a memorial for Richard Howard, the greatly beloved poet, teacher, editor, and mentor, and on March 31, 2023, at Miller Theatre. For those of you not familiar with…
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The Year Kay Ryan Went to AWP (To Cover It): 4 Excerpts
A few excerpts from Kay Ryan's "I Go To AWP" (written for Poetry, in 2005, the year AWP was in Vancouver) <<< Simone Weil would have starved herself to death before she would have…
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Lawrence Raab: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________________________ Original Sin That was one idea my mother always disliked. She preferred her god to be reasonable, like Emerson or…
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Squibs 486-487: Charles Simic [by Alan Ziegler]
486: Charles Simic Was Generous to ChildrenOn Memorial Day 1979, my ten-year-old nephew, Craig Luchen, was kicking around a soccer ball in his backyard during a family gathering. Craig was ahead of the curve in…
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Slow down, and put on your “Panama Hat”: Major Jackson’s Pick for March 10
Iām Major Jackson, and this is The Slowdown. After I finished my MFA at University of Oregon, I packed up my worldly possessions (some clothes, a lotta books) in my beat-up minivan and was off…
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Mary Jo Salter on W. H. Auden (& more) in the new “Literary Matters”
Mary Jo Salter on W. H. Auden in Literary Matters What is the secret meaning of the last line of "Epitaph on a Tyrant": "And when he cried, the little children died in the…
