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Big news from Hungary! Specters stalk Europe (and world) says Boglárka Börcsök’s and Andreas Bolm’s “Figuring Age”
"Figuring Age" by Boglárka Börcsök and Andreas Bolm. Photo © Patricio Cassinoni If somebody dressed up in Blackface for a very sympathetic and strong solo performance about Frederick Douglass and his struggle to abolish slavery,…
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Happy Birthday, WHA
Born February 21, 1907, W. H. Auden came to NYC in 1939. Here is his poem "The More Loving One" below which you will find the videotape of a discussion I led on Auden.…
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On Auden’s Birthday: What the Stars Say [by Jill Baron]
Why Auden is an Aquarius [by Jill Baron] Wystan Hugh Auden, born February 21, 1905 When I read "Under Which Lyre: A Reactionary Tract for the Times" (the Phi Beta Kappa Poem Auden read…
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On Archie [Ammons] on His Birthday [Feb 18]
Archie I’m listening to Eric Dolphy without understanding a word there are no words but I know what you mean on the drive back to Hamilton College after visiting Archie for the first time…
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Major Jackson: “On occasion though, a devastating feeling hits me . . . “
(Ed note: Every volume of The Best American Poetry includes contributors' notes for which the poets share something about the inspiration for the poem chosen for the book. Here's what Major Jackson writes about…
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Who said it? (2025 series, #5)
"You can be free if you want to be." "Don't kill the criminal; make him work for you." "Don't kiss the fool; ignore his opinions Opinions have killed more people than earthquakes and vocanoes."…
