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Harvard Prof Disses Great Books [by Walter Carey]
Last nght at the Wilson Trust Foundation, Professor Beryl Dunkelheit began their lecture on "Why We Read Great Books" with the a priori premise that we read them "to become a better person."…
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Richard Howard, 1929-2022 [by David Lehman]
John Hollander, Richard Howard, and David Lehman about to enter the Bowery Poetry Club for a reunion of the Columbia Review editors, 2005. (photo © Stacey Lehman) Richard Howard, distinguished poet, critic, teacher, guest…
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Bob Dylan to Host Reality TV: America’s Next Top Bard [by Stacey Harwood]
Fox network announced today that it will headline its lineup of fall programming with "America's Next Top Bard." In the pilot, contestants are asked to memorize and recite a soliloquy from Hamlet, to write a…
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Performer Simon Tanguy does words well [by Tracy Danison]
Simon Tanguy performing “Inging”. Photo©Elian Bachini Although she disdained mostly everybody but her two sisters and her boon girlfriend Dottie, my mother was much involved in good works. Ma mastered the trick of feeding…
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“Poem for Basho” [by Ed Ochester]
If I am timorous andhesitant to intrudeon your privacy, forgive me, for thoughevery poet in New Yorkhas written a poem to you it is different herewhere one farm does not wishto violate another farm's…
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“Imperial Adam” by A.D. Hope [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
When A.D. Hope published his first collection of poetry, The Wandering Islands, at the age of 48, he was already regarded as the leading Australian poet of his day. The book’s belated publication in…
