Tag: poet
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A Search For Who To Learn From
In the next to last poem he ever wrote, A Thanksgiving, W.H. Auden pays homage to the voices without whom, he reckons, “I couldn’t have managed / even my weakest of lines.” It’s quite a list: – Hardy, Thomas and Frost, for inspiring his early adolescent verse – Yeats and Graves for a young lover, discovering…
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See You Tomorrow At Concordia College’s Business Breakfast Series
If you’re awake in Westchester tomorow morning at the ungodly hour of 7am, come for the “Business Breakfast” series at Concordia College. I’ll be there. Here’s the last slide I’ll present. Here’s the first one: (image credit: Hugh MacLoed)
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A Message From My Neighbors About Technology
My Fatherinlaw bought us a printer today, unsolicited. Now when he comes to stay, he can print things and not have to look at us like we’re nuts for not having a printer. Instead, he will look at us like we’re assholes for not having any ink in the printer he bought us. Same day,…
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Daniel Nester Remembers Our Hang With Paul McCartney & George Plimpton–The Night Before 9/11
Poet Daniel Nester just posted this poignant piece in the Times Union remembering what it felt like the night before 9/11… and after. “Keep the Memory Alive”: An Account from Nine Years Ago by Daniel Nester On the evening of September 1o, 2001, I went to a party to honor former poet laureate Billy Collins.…
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The Wall Street Journal Reports Iranian Simin Behbahani Will Follow John Ashbery As mtvU’s Next Poet Laureate
Tonight, The Wall Street Journal broke the news that we’ve named mtvU’s new Poet Laureate. As the Journal’s Kamau High reports, it’s 82 year-old Iranian poet Simin Behbahani. Beginning Monday, mtvU will broadcast 19 short films featuring Behbahani’s poems, translated by Farzaneh Milani and Kaveh Safa, and produced by Sophia Cranshaw. mtvU will also be…