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A Bardd Americanaidd in Wales [by Bob Holman]
Language Matters with Bob Holman is now available to stream on PBS Video. “Foneddigion a Boneddigesau! Fy llinell gyntaf o gynghanedd!” The Welsh is slow and halting, pried off the page, the performance knowing…
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Punana Leo, Language Nest [by Bob Holman]
And so I made my first trip to Hawaii. It’s a long way from everywhere, specks of black lava, folded green jewels in the middle of the largest body of water on the planet…
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After A Phrase By Adam Kirsch [poem by James Cummins]
'No one asked for Shelley's views on the Congressof Vienna, just as no one asks for John Ashbery's viewson climate change.' No one asked Galway Kinnell forhis views on sex & romance, either, just tried…
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Jane Freilicher (1924-2014) [by John Ashbery in ARTFORUM]
Jane Freilicher and John Ashbery at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1952. Photo: Walter Silver. I’M WRITING THIS in a room that contains a number of pictures, mostly by women, as it happens. One is byJane…
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A Chance Meeting, Uniting Opposites [by Bob Holman]
Alice Quinn, in all her ebullience, “Bob, this is Eve. Eve Grubin. She’s David Grubin’s daughter! She’s a poet.” This in the sunny, energized Poetry Society of America offices—what a great meeting. Eve was…
