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BOB DYLAN’S PATHS OF VICTORY (by Lawrence J. Epstein)
The Reverend John B. Matthias was born on the first day of 1767. He eventually joined the clergy of the Methodist Episcopal Church and, like other ministers of the church, he became a circuit…
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My Mentor Alastair Reid [by Jay Parini]
My old mentor Alastair Reid died only two years ago at 88. He was a Scottish poet and translator, and we met him in 1970 in Scotland, where I lived for seven years. He was…
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Daniel Halpern on Hyam Plutzik’s “Letter from a Young Poet” [by David Lehman]
The new, just-published edition of Hyam Plutzik's Letter from a Young Poet (Watkinson / Trinity College / Books and Books Press, 2016) is a welcome event. Plutzik (1911-1962), the son of Jewish immigrants from Russia,…
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Oughta be in Pictures (by Jennifer Michael Hecht)
Hi again Bleaders, I wanted to show you this. On fb the photographer Reuben Radding and I have stumbled into a collaboration. Here's the first official one. RR had posted a photo on…
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Poetry [by Jay Parini]
I was at a literary festival in Montreal this past weekend, and I met a man – middle-aged, with a white beard, Canadian – who asked what I wrote. When I explained that poetry…
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Thinking of Frost [by Jay Parini]
I find it hard to get Robert Frost out of my head. Of course I wrote a long biography of him in the late nineties: Robert Frost: A Life. That book, in one way…
