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Painting/ [by Anna Cypra Oliver]
(Ed note: This is the third in a series by Anna Cypra Oliver. Find yesterday's post here. sdh) PAINTING I couldn’t write and so for a long time I turned my creative attention elsewhere:…
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In Appreciation of James Tate, 1943-2015 [by David Lehman]
I became a convert to James Tate’s poetry when he published Constant Defender and Reckoner in 1983 and ’86 respectively. I was asked to review his work for the Washington Post Book World, and…
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Drawing/Painting/Drawing Continued/ [by Anna Cypra Oliver]
(Ed note: This is the second in a series by Anna Cypra Oliver. Find yesterday's post here. sdh) DRAWING Stephan likes to tell people that he introduced me to drawing, but that isn’t strictly…
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Monday Comic by Nin Andrews
In his wonderful book, State of the Art, David Lehman writes: After observing that "every revolution in poetry" is at base "a return to common speech," T.S. Eliot in "The Music of Poetry" (1942) goes on…
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Anna Cypra Oliver, Guest Author July 20-14
This week we welcome Anna Cypra Oliver as our guest author. Anna is the author of the acclaimed memoir Assembling My Father (Houghton Mifflin, 2004; Mariner Books, 2006). Her essays have appeared in The Inquisitive…
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Right and Left [by Lera Auerbach]
I started playing piano before I learned which was my right hand and which the left. To remember my hands correctly, I would associate the right hand with the high notes of the keyboard…
