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Friday, October 10, NYU Creative Writing Presents: Poetry Reading by David Lehman and Leah Umansky
October 10 5:00pm Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street David Lehman is the author of several collections of poems and criticism, including “The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York…
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The Details in the Details [by January Gill O’Neil]
When I try to explain to my 9-year old daughter what it means to be a poet, I stumble over my words every time. It’s hard explaining what staying open means. I spend my…
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Tonight – A Tribute to Mark Strand: Thursday, October 9, 7:00 PM
The Auditorium at 66 West 12th Street, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall New York, NY 10011 Readings and words of praise will be offered by poets Jonathan Aaron, John Beer, Peg Boyers, Timothy Donnelly, Jorie Graham, Ed…
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TEN MISCELLANEOUS TAKES WITH MY FATHER [by Alan Ziegler]
For Matthew Ziegler (1920-2001) Take One: How he teaches me what’s funny My father shows me a comic strip he keeps folded up in his wallet. As I scan the four captionless panels, he…
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Where’s Waldo? The Results Are In
For the American Scholar's second crowd-sourced poem competition, David Lehman invited readers to write a five-line acrostic poem with an epigraph from the intellectual godfather of The American Scholar, Ralph Waldo Emerson, as a starting point.…
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Coldfront Celebrates the Life and Work of Paul Violi
This month, Coldfront, one of our favorite on-line journals, is celebrating the life and work of Paul Violi. Here's a taste of the first post. Click over to Coldfront to read the entire piece…
