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While much of the literary world is flush with excitement over the possible discovery of a new poem by William Shakespeare, two Harvard experts interviewed this week questioned whether the Bard was actually the author...
...Sunday, The New York Times reported that Gary L. Taylor, a 32-year-old scholar from Topeka, Kan., discovered a previously unknown nine-stanza Shakespeare poem while looking through old volumes at Oxford University in England...
Taylor dates the poem to between 1593-1595, the same years during which Shakespeare, then around 30, wrote "Romeo and Juliet," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and "Love's Labour's Lost...
...immigrant searching for a country, inventing a country I can belong to," she read from one poem, "Stories." Much of Levins-Morales' poetry deals with her feelings of alienation as a woman, a Latino and a Jew. The poems also dealt with her memories of growing up in Puerto Rico...
...thing to criticize dead or deposed leaders and quite another to chastise those in power. Last week Yevtushenko, 52, who once was considered a daring anti-Establishment voice in his country, demonstrated anew his recognition of that crucial difference. Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, published a Yevtushenko poem that condemns the sluggish bureaucracy that General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev repeatedly has blamed for blocking economic progress. Wrote Yevtushenko: "They jammed sticks/ in the wheels of the first locomotive/ to make sure it wouldn't work,/ quacks gripped the surgeon's knife/ when he cut on a heart/ to save...