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Expansive preferences: Extra! an annual festival of living words at Centre Pompidou [by Tracy Danison]
Translingual poet Cia Rinne has won the 2019 Prix Bernard Heidsieck for work on the living word awarded during the annual Extra! literary festival©Hervé Veronese/Centre Pompidou Maybe poets and literati should take a leaf…
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Why Poets Love Noir #12: The First Time [by David Lehman and Suzanne Lummis]
What about film noir first appealed to you, and has that changed over the years? Or not? Suzanne Lummis: Initially, it wasn’t film noir that hooked me—it was classic crime fiction, the hardboiled stuff…
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“Get Drunk” [Baudelaire, “Enivrez-vous,” trans. D. Lehman]
You must get drunk. That’s it: your sole imperative. To immunize yourself from the backbreaking, body-bending burdens of time, you must get drunk and stay that way. But on what? On wine, on poetry,…
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Three Books, One Reading: Powerhouse Arena, Thursday, Sept 26, 7 -9 PM
Book Launch: Best American Poetry 2019 and two new books by David Lehman who will read from Playlist: a poem in 57 daily parts (U of Pittsburgh Press) One Hundred Autobiographies: A Memoir (Cornell…
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Death, Poetry, and the Three Pigs [by Nin Andrews]
When I pulled a slim volume of poetry off the shelf and read the following description on the back, I knew I had to read it. “In Kim Dower’s fourth collection, Sunbathing on Tyrone Power’s…
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“Next Line, Please”: In One Era and Out the Other [by David Lehman]
In my farewell address, I warned against the military-industrial complex and made an allusion to "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," by John Donne, whose moral compass I honor. <<<Well, it had to happen. This is…
