Charles Simic, Among The Stars
A tribute to the poet laureate, who has died at age 84
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Poetry
Gary Snyder Joins the Greats
Library of America honors an influential poet of the San Francisco Renaissance
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Remembering Lawrence Ferlinghetti
He inspired me, and so many others, to a life in poetry
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‘The ABCs Of Metallica’
A Picture Book That Teaches Kids How to be Heavy-Metal Sellouts
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Men Keep Giving Me Lyn Heijinian Books to Read
Which is Ironic Given that She Writes Feminist Language Poetry
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Reading in The Horse Latitudes
Authors Can’t Stop Naming Their Books after Random Geographical Area
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Are Literary Awards Fraudulent?
A Critic Starts to Wonder How Books Get Chosen
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A Mary Oliver Morning in New Jersey
Remembering the Pulitzer-winning poet who wrote of things around us
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Just Another Day at the Orifice
In Shiv Kotecha’s ‘The Switch’, Boundaries Don’t Matter
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