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Oughta be in Pictures (by Jennifer Michael Hecht)
Hi again Bleaders, I wanted to show you this. On fb the photographer Reuben Radding and I have stumbled into a collaboration. Here's the first official one. RR had posted a photo on…
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Poetry [by Jay Parini]
I was at a literary festival in Montreal this past weekend, and I met a man – middle-aged, with a white beard, Canadian – who asked what I wrote. When I explained that poetry…
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Thinking of Frost [by Jay Parini]
I find it hard to get Robert Frost out of my head. Of course I wrote a long biography of him in the late nineties: Robert Frost: A Life. That book, in one way…
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William Holden [by David Lehman]
Born in O'Fallon, Illinois, on April 17, 1918, William Franklin Beedle was the most energetic kid in his class. He was popular among the boys because he was a good teammate in sports. The…
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In Conversation with Older Poets [by Jay Parini]
My New and Collected Poems, 1976-2015 has just appeared from Beacon Press, and I couldn’t be happier with the results – a lovely looking book that has allowed me to gather my poems…
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Jay Parini, Guest Author April 18-22
This week we welcome Jay Parini as our guest author. Jay's five books of poetry include Anthracite Country, House of Days and New and Collected Poems: 1975-2015 (Beacon Press, March 29, 2016). He has written eight novels,…