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Stanley Kunitz - It says a great deal about Stanley Kunitz that he was 95 when he was named Poet Laureate for the second time.
C.P. Cavafy - Constantine Petrou Cavafy (1863-1933) may be one of the greatest poets of the last century, but he's mostly known for one poem.
A New Path to the Waterfall, Raymond Carver - What if you only had a year to live? How would you live it?
There’s no easier question.
Anna Akhmatova - "Poetry is respected only in this country,” said Russian poet Osip Mandelstam.
By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives, Judith Tannenbaum & Spoon Jackson - What a pleasure to welcome a new Guest Butler, Ruth Gendler. She’s both writer and artist, equally admired in each field.
Donald Hall - How pathetic is this? I was the kid who liked poetry in school and memorized poems that weren't even assigned. I have a large poetry collection.
Dorothy Parker - She was a Rothschild --- just not a Rothschild with any link to the rich Rothschilds.
Her mother died a month before her fifth birthday, her stepmothe
Kabir: Ecstatic Poems -
Did you know there were stand-up comedians in India in the 1400s?
Me neither --- until I read Kabir.
Alas, technology did not exist to immortalize hi
Monsoon Solo: Voices Once Submerged, Gretl Claggett - Norman Mailer said you don’t really know a woman until you’ve met her in court.
I say you don’t know a woman until you’
Poetry Month - Poetry Month. About time. There’s never enough poetry in our lives.
Randall Jarrell: The Complete Poems - The Well-to-do Invalid
When you first introduced me to your nurse
I thought, "She's like&
Selected Poems, Bertolt Brecht - Winner: Each January, the American Library Association honors the best children’s books.
Sharon Olds - Her father is dying, and her plane's been cancelled, but there's another, leaving in just a few minutes, not in this terminal, but it will get her t
Sharon Olds: Stag's Leap - I like to say that writing is the hardest thing I know to do --- and if I found anything harder, I would leave writing and do that.
For some time now
The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy - He's dead. And Ivan Ilyich's associates are saying the usual things.
The Essential Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks - The greatest Muslim poet was born in what is now Afghanistan, back when Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists lived peacefully together.
Wislawa Szymborska: Poems New and Collected - It sounds like a Polish joke: Did you hear about the Polish poet who won the Nobel prize?
There are certainly some nearly comical responses.
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