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Reid Hall Gets a Re-do [by David Lehman]
Years ago, as a graduate student shuttling between England and France, I spent a lot of time at Reid Hall in Paris, Columbia's footprint in the city of lights. It was and is at…
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Ithaca Alert: Lehman to give “Lecture with Musical Illustrations” at IC Monday 9/16
Ithaca alert: On Monday evening, September 16, 2019,at 7:30 PM I will give a talk — punctuated by wonderful music — about the great American songbook. at Ithaca College, Textor 101. The talk is…
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An Interview with Sydney Lea (by Nin Andrews)
NA: On Monday, I posted an interview on this blog in which I talked about the anthology, Here, Poems for the Planet, edited by Elizabeth J. Coleman. I want to follow it with this interview…
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Does anybody have my Ram Dass? [By Steven Rea]
You know how you lose books, lend books, spill a pot of coffee on books, slip books into Little Libraries around town, put books on the sidewalk in a box marked “Free!” — never…
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My Trouble with Optimism and an Interview with Shara McCallum (by Nin Andrews)
Lately, I have been having trouble with optimism. And I have been having trouble with my trouble with optimism. I am, quite simply, depressed. I'm not even sure of the role of poetry anymore—both in…
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From Pity to Wisdom to Coercion [by Lionel Trilling]
<<< Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the object of our…
