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David Lehman and Frank Sinatra’s Songs Fill the Airways
David Lehman in Hoboken, NJ, Sinatra's birthplace. Photo by Stacey Harwood-Lehman Last week David Lehman and Geoffrey Riley had a grand time talking about Sinatra's Century , David's new book, just out from HarperCollins. They listened to…
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Anna Maria Hong, Guest Author November 15-19
photo (c) Stephanie Mitchell This week we welcome Anna Maria Hong as our guest author. Anna Maria is the winner of the 2014 Clarissa Dalloway Prize from the A Room of Her Own Foundation…
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On Marianne Moore’s Birthday [by David Lehman]
Here are two versions of "The Past is the Present" by Marianne Moore. The first version is the one that I used for The Oxford Book of American Poetry. The second version is one…
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Moby Dick [poem and commentary by Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton]
Woodcut (c) Rockwell Kent Moby-Dick In those days priests preached of whales—devils they called them—their tiny eyes and pitchfork fins.Ahab talked to the whale’s severed head, sphinx- like and dumb as sand, said, “Tell…
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Gulliver’s Travels 2 [poem and commentary by Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton]
Book Two Now Gulliver seemed the little man, punkrocker, baby-faced spider falling through cracks.He was pelted with boulder-apples, attackedby a jealous dwarf who prided himself on baubleness, his keen resemblance to elves.Mishaps abounded: Peaches, hailstones,…
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Start Spreading the News: David Lehman talks Frank Sinatra, Thursday, December 3, 2015, 6:30PM – 8:00PM
Cooper Union 7 East 7th Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues, NYC Sinatra at the Liederkrantz Hall in New York, c.1947. Photo by William P. Gottlieb via the Library of Congress In a free,…
