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...Carl Sandburg, “Chicago”—Carl Sandburg’s 1916 poem remains the most vibrant and moving tribute to the City of the Big Shoulders: “Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning, [bitches].” Well said, Carl. Well said...

Author: By Patrick R. Chesnut, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Patrick R. Chesnut | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...Gevisser's treatment, Mbeki emerges as a tragic figure. The book's title refers to a Langston Hughes poem that Mbeki, warning of growing popular anger at persistent inequalities in postapartheid South Africa, quoted before Parliament in 1998: "What happens to a dream deferred? It explodes." But Mbeki has been unable to bridge the divide, and that failure has bolstered support for the earthy populist Zuma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

...always been interested. My first book of poetry includes a poem in which my grandfather appears and encourages me to write poetry...

Author: By Julia M. Spiro, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Q's with Roger Kamenetz | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

...took it on as a challenge.RR: Did you change anything up to try to make it more acceptable?MW: No, nothing. I didn’t change one word. I learned that everything in the play is important. It’s like a poem, every word is important.RR: You didn’t want to make the Yale students uglier or less articulate or anything like that?MW: No, because it speaks for itself. I didn’t want to have stereotypes and clichés because that’s just lame. I could have advertised this...

Author: By Jeffrey W. Feldman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ROVING REPORTER: "Manuscript" | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

...audience, however, appeared to disagree. At the event’s end, when Bhabha asked the crowd if they would like to ask a last question or hear Vendler read a short poem, audience members shouted, “read a poem...

Author: By Elsa S. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Vendler Presents New Yeats Book | 11/28/2007 | See Source »

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