Word: poems
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...Proust’.LD: I would say the same thing, and it counts as more than one.DD: It’s 3000 pages, so you get to sort of go a long way with that.LD: And it has to be read really slowly because it’s a poem. DD: And he lives in Paris as though he were on a desert island so you could kind of feel at home with it.LD: No it’s a good choice. THC: What do you both most respect in each other as writers? DD: With Leo, clarity...
...looking back at happier times, especially my childhood.”Kimel now makes a living writing instructional material for Korean children, while seeking a publisher for his first story in English, “Max and Screecher, The Underbed Creature”—a twisted, witty poem about a boy who gets revenge on some bullies with the help of a fuzzy, hungry monster. The Israeli-born Kimel suspects that observers see a paradox in a Harvard-educated children’s author but waves the idea away, viewing his alma mater as a logical step towards...
...Spoken Word Society, which helped sponsor last night’s event, had prior ties to Coval, who mentored Olivarez through the group Young Chicago Authors. Olivarez was the sole audience member to volunteer to share his poetry in the open-mic segment of the evening, reading his own poem, “Walls.” Coval then took the floor and performed several pieces on themes ranging from the Chicago sunrise to growing up as a Jewish-American in the Chicago suburbs. “I’m down for a difficult conversation,” Coval...
Richard Cory, richer than a king, "fluttered pulses when he said,/ 'Good-morning,' and he glittered when he walked." And in the shocking final line of E.A. Robinson's famous poem, this outwardly ideal man "went home and put a bullet through his head...
...your reading glasses, lean back on a blue couch, and toss open an anthology of Wallace Stevens or the latest issue of the Kenyon Review. You can also go to the computer at the front of the room and contribute to the Woodberry Poetry Room Daily Poem, which was started to celebrate Lamont's 60th anniversary. Anyone who walks into the room can add a line to the poem. Too bad when your faithful blogger walked into the room, it had only this one line: "Each generation begins again the going there." The title? "Utopiaward...