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...putting down, so I sacked up: I waited until she left and then furiously searched for her on Facebook. Her unprotected profile and explicitly “single” status was a less than subtle hint that she wanted it. We had only one friend in common: Milosz Cherepanovich, the Albanian kid from my freshman entryway. Since I was very confident that Europeans had more sex than Americans, and somewhat confident that Albania was part of Europe, I sought him out for advice. I mean, let’s be honest here, seeing this kid was like [JOKE REDACTED...
...like to quote the great Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz: “What is poetry that does not save nations or people?” Most poets don’t really think about that. In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty. So there was that feeling of responsibility...
...singles play, Wan (6-1, 6-1) and Ermakov (6-4, 7-6) picked up wins for Harvard, but Bulldogs victories at No. 5 and No. 3 brought the score to 3-2. Freshman Chris Clayton secured the dual match for the Crimson, knocking off Yale’s Milosz Gudzowski, 6-1, 5-7, 6-3, and Bulldog Brandon Wai came from behind to defeat Kumar at No. 1 for Yale’s final tally. “This is some of the best I’ve played all year,” Kumar said...
...conscience” as she awarded him the Golden Rose. The award has been presented since 1920 to the writer deemed by the NEPC to have had the greatest influence on American poetry in the past year or over a lifetime. Past recipients include Robert Frost, Seamus Heaney, Czeslaw Milosz, Adrienne Rich, and Mary Oliver. “The Golden Rose is very good luck,” said Der-Hovanessian, noting that several recipients have gone on to win Pulitzer and Nobel prizes. Ferlinghetti read first from his older and better recognized works, including the 1958 collection...
Among the many rewards of the congress was the chance for unknowns to meet such lions as Nobel Prizewinners Bellow, Czeslaw Milosz and Claude Simon as well as Playwright Arthur Miller and International PEN President Per Wstberg. They mingled in places as dissimilar as hotel coffee shops and the 34-room apartment of Saul Steinberg, the takeover artist. There was also a party at Gracie Mansion, where Mayor Edward Koch and Poet Allen Ginsberg hummed a mantra, and a wall-to-wall reception in the vast Egyptian wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Milling around the reconstructed Temple...