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Seamus Heaney, 1939-2013
Damiano Abeni (r) translates for Seamus Heaney at the Casa delle Letterature, May 2013. Heaney was the William B. Hart Poet in Residence at the American Academy in Rome. Photo courtesy of Moira Egan…
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Dylan Thomas: Wild Child [by Larry Sawyer]
I was recently marveling over this poem by Dylan Thomas, “Who are you who is born in the next room…” (published in 1945) from a series of pattern poems called Vision and Prayer because…
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Chicago Artists Resource Interview with Larry Sawyer on The Chicago School of Poetics
photo (c)Lawrence Schwartzwald How does not having a physical school benefit your students and classes? The online classes simply allow us to invite students into our community no matter where they’re living. With a…
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The Basic Beliefs of Bob Dylan (by Lawrence J. Epstein)
My book The Basic Beliefs of Judaism: A Twenty-first-Century Guide to a Timeless Tradition has just been published. Writing it compelled me to think of how idea systems are structured and about the nature…
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Great Movie Moment: Splendor in the Grass “Miss Metcalf, may I be excused?”
The first time I watched this movie, this scene — not the scene in which Warren Beatty pushes Natalie Wood to her knees, or frolics naked under the waterfall with the town tramp(the girl…
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Six Love, Six One, Six Love (We Won)
Stephanie Paterik and David Lehman before their first-round mixed doubles match at the US Open, Monday, August 26.
