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The Greatest “English” Poet you (Really) Haven’t Heard of [by Daniel Westover]
Last month while scrolling through my Twitter feed I came across a link to an article by Adam Kirsch in The New Republic titled “The Greatest English Poet you Haven’t Heard of.” This kind…
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Early Summer Due In, and a Poem from Major Jackson’s Holding Company [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dearest Bleaders, Weather service says we’re in for a mini-heat-wave in my neck of the brick – temps in the 90s. Right now a warm cloud has settled on the ground and wets us…
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“The Escape Artist” by David Lehman (on Slate)
Courtesy of Finn Mac Ginty/Flickr A dark green room: the experiment fails, And the leaves change color before their time. He felt, though he had not committed a crime, Like a gangster disguised in…
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“The Adlai Stevenson of the Art World” [Jane Freilicher]
<<<A 1956 letter written by Ms. Freilicher to Frank O’Hara, who celebrated her in his acclaimed “Jane” poems, initiated various plans to get together, beginning: “Dear Frankie, I was utterly delighted to get your…
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Why (Not) Wales? [by Daniel Westover]
I am one of the (relatively) few American academics specializing in the English-language literature of Wales, sometimes referred to as Anglo-Welsh literature. The term that most of us working in the field use is…
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Greta Gynt, “The Shady Lady Spiv”
From the black-and-white postwar British movie Easy Money (1948), here is the Norwegian actress Greta Gynt singing "The Shady Lady Spiv" to fellow spiv (or cheap crook) Dennis Price at the London nightclub where…
