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This Be The Poet: PSA Celebrates the Poetry of Philip Larkin by Madge McKeithen
“The poem kept pushing back at me, challenging me.” Thomas Sayers Ellis was speaking about “Money,” the poem that he had just read at Tuesday night’s celebration of the work of Philip…
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David Grubin’s “Downtown Express” [by David Lehman]
Sasha, a brilliant young Russian violinist, needs a visa to stay in New York. He gets a fellowship to study at Juilliard and he's good, but his domineering father, a cellist from the old…
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The Other Latin@: A Q&A with Blas Falconer [by Emma Trelles]
The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity is an anthology of 20 essays that, according to its co-editor Blas Falconer, aims to counter a narrow perspective of Latino/a writers and honor their diversity. In…
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“The Strings” [by Lera Auerbach]
The strings are the veins of music. In the night, inside the piano, they grow silence until it ripens and calls to the composer, who gathers sounds in the darkness, like a blind-man picking…
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The Storage Unit by Ada Limón
One of the jobs required of me during this week in Sonoma, according to my stepfather, was to go through what he refers to as MY storage unit. I wasn’t required to get rid…
