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A Poem for President Obama [By Sholeh Wolpé]
I was up late last night watching the elections. I knew Obama would win. He had to. The alternative was unthinkable. I watched the election results at my desk while I worked…
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The Year in Review: On “Whitman’s Cavalry Crossing a Fjord” by Caroline Malone (January 22, 2012)
Only in the past five or so years have I become a fan of Walt Whitman’s poetry. I’ve never disliked his work, but I also never could generate an enthusiasm for it either. I…
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I Have Sinned…. [by Sholeh Wolpé]
At a time when literature and the arts, and just about everything else in Iran were dominated by men, when very few women were respected as poets, a young woman by the name of…
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David Lehman Kicks Off BAP “Song of the Week” Residency at Coldfront.
Head on over to Coldfront where since July 2011, Jackie Clark has been curating the brilliant "Song of the Week" series. Clark invites contributors to write a short piece about a favorite song, any…
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Just Another Day at the Neighborhood Polling Place [by Stacey Harwood]
The wait to vote was only about an hour this morning, not too bad on a brisk sunny day. My polling place is an NYU building a few blocks away and as I approached…
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The Year in Review: For the Love of Poetry by Leah Umansky (January 19, 2012)
I thought I’d write tonight about poetry and the kind of poems that move me. Ironically, the poems I call my “favorites” are nothing like the poems I actually write. I never realized this…
