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Rick Moody, David Lehman on Bob Dylan, and . . . Cher? Wednesday, January 19, 7-10 PM. 14th Street Y, 344 East 14th Street New York, NY 2011
The back story: Once upon a time William G. Scheele, photographer and equipment/stage manager for The Band and Bob Dylan from 1969 to 1976, snapped a red-tinted picture of Dylan and The Band jamming with,…
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Dispatch from Istanbul by Ming Holden
Ed note: Our friend Ming Holden, whom David and I met while visiting Mongolia in 2009 traveled to Istanbul last fall to take part in WALTIC 2010. We asked her to share her thoughts…
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Quote of the Day – Winston Churchill
From Bryan Garner, ed, Garner's Modern American Usage (Oxford University Press): The spurious rule about not ending sentences with prepositions is a remnant of Latin grammar, in which a preposition was the one word…
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Perseverating on a Theme by Leslie McGrath
Writing about “best of” compilations has made me think about my own interests and preoccupations with regard to literature. A few weeks ago, I was asked by Clare Rossini (a poet whose work I…
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The Golden Ox: a love poem (by Mitch Sisskind)
You and I, my love, so many nights Driving on Clybourne past the Golden Ox In the years I was with Harrison Table Mat And…
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Seven Haiku for a Mongolian Master [by David Lehman]
Under the general editorship of the eminent Mongolian poet G. Mend-Oyoo, an important dual-language anthology of American poetry has appeared in Ulaanbaatar (Mongolian Academy of Culture and Poetry). It's called simply American Poetry and…
