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This Just In: Support for the Open Letter to the Poetry Foundation
Yesterday afternoon we posted Sandra Simond's Open Letter calling for the Poetry Foundation to make a financial committment to poets in need. You can read Sandra's letter here. Within a few hours, the letter…
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Career Trajectories: On the Hill, Over the Hill [by Johnny Chinnici]
R.A. Dickey would have retired at 30, if not for reinventing himself. I’ll be turning 30 next month, the age at which most ballplayers’ skills begin to erode. But what about poets? Do…
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Open Letter to the Poetry Foundation: Share the Wealth [by Sandra Simonds]
To the Poetry Foundation: This is an open letter asking the Poetry Foundation to make a strong financial commitment to aid poets in our communities facing financial crises and a lack of adequate healthcare.…
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Perusing “Sport” and Considering Grantland Rice [by Johnny Chinnici]
I own plenty of baseball memorabilia, but most of it’s in storage. Here in my apartment I have a baseball signed by seven Hall of Famers; a Johnny Damon autograph; an old Ernie Banks…
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Elizabeth Bishop at Her Best [by Howard Nemerov]
Elizabeth Bishop has agreed to guest-edit an upcoming volume in The Best American Poetry series. "I've wanted to get her to do this since the series began," David Lehman, BAP's general editor, stated in a press…
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Fat Lady to Sing Soon for Tim McCarver [by Johnny Chinnici]
With the Dodgers headed to the next round of the playoffs— and the Yankees and Mets bruised–it’s hard not to imagine what NYC would feel like if the Dodgers were still in Brooklyn. Frank…
