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Shostakovich: Six Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva [by Lewis Saul]
SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitri (1906-1975) Six Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva, Op. 143a (1973)1. My poems (3:26)2. Such tenderness (3:53)3. Hamlet's dialogue with his conscience (3:23)4. The Poet and the Tsar (1:40)5. No, the drum beat (3:28)6.…
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Sonnet After Milton [by Mitch Sisskind]
Waiting is one of Judaism's great themesAs when Abraham waited to be the fatherOf a great nation which God promised him Or…
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Thomas O’Grady: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
______________________________________________________ Grappelli Take It Don’t Mean a Thing as one instance—the version from ’35, with Django swinging…
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Martin Peretz on Harvard
<<< Harvard had a kind of indifference to its Americanness then [postwar years]: Europe was still everything, Cambridge and Oxford were the colleges, Britain was the culture. American bounty was ignored. Four Mark Rothko murals hung until…
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Robert Hershon Presents a Poem by Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel
Bob Hershon (pictured here, with Elizabeth Swados, prior to their reading at KGB Bar last Monday evening), has been selecting our Sunday poems from Hanging Loose. Photo credit: Star Black This poem by Wilma…
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Paul Violi Picks the Contest Winners!
In December 2007, the late Paul Violi (left) read the entries for our BEST AMERICAN POETRY challenge # 2. We repost the results today, Paul's birthday. THE CHALLENGE (devised by David Lehman): When deciphered,…
