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“fiercely loyal and full of appreciation and affection.” Remembering Ted Greenwald (1942-2016) by Terence Winch
Ted Greenwald and I had been friends for more than 40 years. Around 1973, I saw a poem of his in a poetry magazine & loved it. I don’t remember the poem or the…
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No word was spoken
“Wartime, here as abroad, made everyone more eager for the civilized and peaceful excitement of ballet. More people could also afford tickets. And in wartime, the fact that no word was spoken on the…
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Obtuseness around the world series, Part 1
La question française: Is there a truly, special English stupidity? Once, when I was first here in France, I hurriedly hopped on a wrong train. With a particularly absorbing novel close to my nose,…
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Remembering James Tate by Mikko Harvey
(Ed note: On February 4, 2016, poets and poetry lovers gathered at the New School to celebrate the life and work of James Tate, who died on July 8, 2015. As one would expect,…
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The Right Day to Read “The Second Coming” [by David Lehman]
Today — Yeats's birthday. <<< If our age is apocalyptic in mood—and rife with doomsday scenarios, nuclear nightmares, religious fanatics and suicidal terrorists—there may be no more chilling statement of our condition than William Butler Yeats’s…
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“The Birthday of the World” [by David Shapiro]
The Birthday of the World for David Lehman's birthday In Jewish theology, there are reasons why certain holidays are two days and some are one.Why, do you think,…
