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On the Past Denied (by Jennifer Michael Hecht)
Dearest Bleaders, Photographer Reuben Radding and I have again matched a poem of mine, from my most recent book Who Said (Copper Canyon, 2013) to one of his recent photographs. The poem, you'll likely note,…
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Goodnight, Sweet Prince [ by Charles Coe ]
It was late night in a gritty little Roxbury convenience store, winter of '83, years before the Boston real estate boom that brought a flood of young professionals, when most blocks had at least…
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Red Warren [by Jay Parini]
In my mid-twenties, I moved from Scotland to New Hampshire, taking up a teaching job at Dartmouth. I recall that I missed Scotland very badly, especially as I had established a close relationship with…
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BOB DYLAN’S PATHS OF VICTORY (by Lawrence J. Epstein)
The Reverend John B. Matthias was born on the first day of 1767. He eventually joined the clergy of the Methodist Episcopal Church and, like other ministers of the church, he became a circuit…
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My Mentor Alastair Reid [by Jay Parini]
My old mentor Alastair Reid died only two years ago at 88. He was a Scottish poet and translator, and we met him in 1970 in Scotland, where I lived for seven years. He was…
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Daniel Halpern on Hyam Plutzik’s “Letter from a Young Poet” [by David Lehman]
The new, just-published edition of Hyam Plutzik's Letter from a Young Poet (Watkinson / Trinity College / Books and Books Press, 2016) is a welcome event. Plutzik (1911-1962), the son of Jewish immigrants from Russia,…
