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Poem: Dante Lucked Out [by David Lehman]
Dante, poised between the mountain of purgatory and the city of Florence, in a detail of Domenico di Michelino's painting, Florence, 1465. Photo from Wikipedia T. S. Eliot held that Dante was luckyto live…
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Trochaic Theory Favors Sanders, Fiorina, Rubio [by David Lehman]
(Ed note: Pundits have begun to ask David Lehman to apply his trochaic theory of predicting election outcomes to the current slate of candidates, both Democrat and Republican. He first described the theory on…
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Tales of the Nineties: “Because We Matter Too Much in this World….” [by Alan Ziegler]
I dream I’ve taken Dulcinea, our dusky conure, outside to accompany me on my rounds as she does in the apartment, clasped to my shoulder, leaning this way and that. But the weather turns…
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Monday, September 21: DL x 2 – David Lehman and Deborah Landau at KGB Bar
85 E 4th St New York, New York 7:30 PM – FREE David Lehman is the author of many collections of poems, including New and Selected Poems (Scribner, 2013), Yeshiva Boys (Scriber, 2011), When…
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Granary Books at Columbia U. [by Vincent Katz]
Tonight I went up to Columbia for the opening of “The Book Undone: Thirty Years of Granary Books” at the Kempner Gallery Rare Book & Manuscript Library on the sixth floor of Butler Library.…
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William Matthews Surprises Even His Friends [by David Lehman]
It turns out that the late Bill Matthews (1942-1997), author of A Happy Childhood and other works of poetic excellence, had a side to him that not even his admirers suspected. <<< President William…
