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Woodburn: Little girl with a big name
VC Star | Ventura County Star via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDearest Auden, Welcome to our family! We waited for your arrival with growing excitement and diminishing patience as the big day neared. You weren’t due...
Literate Matters: Modern poetry and more
Petoskey News Review via Yahoo News· 1 month agoNever one to miss out on National Poetry Month, I’m currently pages deep into several new collections that I’d like to recommend before this cruelest of...
Detroit abounds in the work of a local poet who became world famous
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 2 months agoWhen Langston Hughes visited Detroit in April 1937, he was already at 36 a celebrated American...
The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf: Poetry
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year ago(Patrick Hruby / For The Times) Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. … A Stab in the Dark by Facundo Bernal, 1921 The Sonoran-born...
SUNY Plattsburgh professor emeritus publishes new books
Press-Republican, Plattsburgh, N.Y. via Yahoo News· 5 months agoDec. 13—SCHUYLER FALLS — Dr. Alexis Levitin may have retired from SUNY Plattsburgh, but he's still publishing. Definitely not perishing. His new titles are: The Last Ruy Lopez: Tales from the ...
5 of the most romantic days in other countries
Stacker via AOL· 4 months agoNew Africa // Shutterstock Valentine's is a time to gift chocolates, send flowers, and write romantic letters to your loved ones. You might have heard...
What was it like to dive into the poetry pool? My time as guest editor of Poetry Magazine
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 3 months agoCHICAGO -- What is a poet? This is a question that I have been asking most of my life, since...
Mark Woods: An evening of breaking bread (or matzah bark) and embracing diversity
The Florida Times-Union via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIt’s somewhat of a rarity to have a confluence of the holy days of three Abrahamic religions —...
The NHS and Royal Mail are in a race to put the public last
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThe three letters about my hospital appointment arrived in the same delivery of mail. One gave me a...
He dumped his friends, then his country – yet Britten remains one of our finest composers
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 months agoI never listen to Benjamin Britten’s Spring Symphony before March 1. I then put it away during June...