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Why I Can’t Be A Beatnik Poet (by Laura Orem)
Okay, I can't take credit for finding this – thanks to Don Share for posting it first. From the 1958 teenybopper drama, High School Confidential! Recognize the guy playing the piano? Jackie Coogan (Uncle…
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The Light of the World, by Gerrit Henry
(David encouraged me to read Gerrit Henry's The Time of the Night. I wish I had discovered this poem in time to post yesterday, but it is still worth reading. The book is everything…
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Praise for Gerrit Henry [by David Lehman]
Rarely reliable are the blurbs on the back of a book. Gerrit Henry's posthumous Time of the Night (Groundwater Press) is the exception that proves that this poet rules. I know, I know; I…
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Two Anecdotes about Paul Violi
The first of these anecdotes comes courtesy of Paul Auster. "Paul Violi told me the funniest story I've ever heard about somebody's childhood," Auster told me. Apparently Paul [Violi] didn't speak until he was…
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Easter Light, by William Zinsser from The American Scholar
Two Sunday mornings ago, one of the last Sundays in the long Lenten season that prepares Christians for the promise of Easter, the reading from the New Testament in my church, St. Bartholomew’s, in…
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