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Jonathan Post, Guest Author November 23-27
This week we welcome Jonathan Post as our guest author. On the faculty at Yale in the late 1970s, Jonathan Post joined the UCLA English Department in 1980, where he has served as Chair of…
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What Really Happened: November 22, 1963 [by David Lehman]
Every year on this day I think unfailingly of three things: — that today is Hoagy Carnichael's birthday, which I imagine him celebrating quietly with a glass of bourbon as he tickles the ivories…
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Reflections on a Reading: Ed Hirsch and Emily Fragos [by Karen Steinmetz]
Emily Fragos and Edward Hirsch, center, shared a post-reading moment with (left) Jennifer Franklin, Program Director, and (right) Jewel Kinch-Thomas, Executive Director When Edward Hirsch invited Emily Fragos to read with him in the…
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The Sonnet, Three Journals, and Four Graces [by Anna Maria Hong]
For my final post, I’d like to talk briefly about my favorite poetic form, the sonnet, which I played around with for eight years, and which I continue to love for its rigor and…
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Sci-Fi First and Last Lines: A Writing Experiment [by Anna Maria Hong]
“Though I am long dead as you read this, explorer, I offer to you a valediction. Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. I feel I…
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Instead of Program Notes [by Lera Auerbach]
On November 24, 2015, I will premiere my new concerto for piano and orchestra with the Stuttgart Philharmonic and Dan Ettinger conducting. Each work is a being with its own life, surprises, mysteries and destiny. This…
