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Standing before a crowd of nearly 200 and donning a pair of sunglasses in an already dark room, Gwyneth Lewis—the first National Poet of Wales—belied notions of the tortured poet: in writing good poetry, one must be in a healthy state of mind. Lewis, known for her collection of poetry “Zero Gravity,” spoke on behalf of the Radcliffe Institute during a lecture entitled “The Health of Poetry,” this year’s Julie S. Phelps Annual Lecture...
...reporter roving across New England and upstate New York at all hours of the day and night, it’s no longer just about the game—its about the sense for adventure. Over a lifetime of following Harvard hockey and a season-and-a-half writing about it, one experience was still missing before I could feel like I truly understood what it was like to cover Harvard hockey. I had never ventured out into the wilderness of upstate New York to witness the men’s hockey team’s own version...
Calvin Trillin is part of that small, infuriating group of people who can write well about anything. During his half-century as a novelist, humorist and journalist - his first full-time job was covering issues of race at TIME's Atlanta bureau in 1960 - Trillin has penned dispatches on topics as diverse as Kansas City barbecue and finding parking spots in Manhattan, as well as acclaimed memoirs like About Alice, a remembrance of his late wife. Trillin's new book, Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme, traces the campaign in verse...
...first effort at writing verse, but it was the first time I tried to write a long, narrative, epic poem. I somehow decided that doing a book of rhyming couplets would sort of drone on after a while, so I decided to interrupt it with what we're calling "embedded poems." Some of those - maybe about half - are poems that appeared in The Nation. The whole narrative poem is published for the first time in the book...
...memoirs. One of them was about a classmate of mine who was the person we thought would be President of the United States. He committed suicide. That led to a book about my father, since my father crept into the first book. Sometimes the memoir is painful to write, but then, I haven't written the sort of memoir that seems to be the style in the U.S. now, which I often characterize as an "atrocity arms-race." With the one about my father, I kept wondering why I was doing this. My father, for most of his working life...