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#TBT Found in Translation — China, 2008 [by David Lehman]
Eleven years have gone by since Stacey and I traveled in China and Mongolia. Here's a blog post from then: << On Monday the 19th, lecturing on American poetry to a room of over…
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Artie Shaw and band play “Frenesi”
Artie Shaw, born on this day, was born to playthe clarinet, and when heleft for Mexico, he came backwith this great track:
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For Alexander Pope and E. M. Forster: Fools rush in. . .
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." — Alexander Pope"Where Angels Fear to Tread." — E. M. Forster". . .and so I come to you, my love, my heart above my head." —…
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Next Line, Please: A Letter is a Joy of the Earth [by Virginia Valenzuela]
There are a number of poems that were considered by their authors be unfinished, even fragmented, including Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” and some of Emily Dickinson’s mysterious two-liners. For this week we considered Dickinson's poem…
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Hip-hop in the performance puzzle: get a feel for it with Valentine Nagata-Ramos & François Lamargot [by Tracy Danison]
Photo©CédricSintes Old wine in new bottles: “My Milk is Better than Yours”, the old story of mother love in hip-hop style by Valentine Nagata-Ramos Hip-hop does a lot more than popularize, re-energize, enable and…
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On Fats Waller’s Birthday: I’m gonna sit right down and write [by David Lehman]
May 21Black Jack I beat the dealerand no use complainingeven though one or another souvenirof my bout with cancer may act upthrowing a left hook that I didn't evadeand the embarrassment of a knockdownwill…
