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Whose Words These Are (11): Lloyd Schwartz

Whose Words These Are (11): Lloyd Schwartz

In anticipation of the 2009 Massachusetts Poetry Festival, the question has been: where does poetry come from these days? And where is it going? You can hear it in Lloyd Schwartz’s reading of “Six Words” that he thought of being an actor. “Speech is his muse,” says his friend Robert Pinsky, noting the [...]

Audio|Wed, 14 Oct 2009
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“…sometimes heartbreaking. This is a portrait series whose words these are on open source from the Watson institute at Brown University. Bush what's meant to be an actor. Along the way you won a Pulitzer prize for his newspaper coverage of classical music around Boston but all while he's been a poet. Typically in monologues and dialogues. Among people you can almost see on stage …”

“…in poetry or English or literature until I was a senior in high school. . I have great. English teacher in high school named Allen can for. Who reminded me of Groucho Marx. Had a mustache. Probably the first. Mayor and I ever met who …”

Donald Pease: Obama’s “Transnational” Presidency

Donald Pease: Obama’s “Transnational” Presidency

Herman Melville, C. L. R. James & Donald Pease: deep dreams of America as the utopian world-nation Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Donald Pease. (49 minutes, 23 mb mp3) Re-read Moby-Dick and be cured of these absurd Nobel blues. The Nobel Peace Prize for Barack Obama underlines the world’s idea of our “transnational” President, our [...]

Audio|Tue, 13 Oct 2009
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“…he was working at the level but -- figure. One. They chose Sarah Palin Sarah Palin becomes the equivalent of a pioneer mother pioneer won't. She -- beat the at the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan regressed the nation to the site of the colonial settlers in relation with the Indians that is. They regressed the American people to the position in which sheer aggression. As a way of -- re appropriate and dignity and positions at home became the deepest asked active resource. When Sarah Palin came and she was at the colonial mother she was the -- colonial -- archetypal colonial mother. From the period that the …”

“…a signify there and floating six. You could project as he was running for president. . Whatever status. You wanted for change on to Barack Obama he did not. Materialized. Fixate or specify. Particular rise the fantasy that …”

Whose Words These Are (10): Stephen Burt

Whose Words These Are (10): Stephen Burt

In anticipation of the 2009 Massachusetts Poetry Festival, the question has been: where does poetry come from these days? And where is it going? Stephen Burt makes you think of Samuel Johnson and also “The Simpsons.” If Harold Bloom were a precocious thirty-something again, if he loved science fiction and underground rock ‘n’ roll, [...]

Audio|Fri, 9 Oct 2009
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“…and roll into our portrait series. Whose words these are. This is open source American conversation global. Accused from the Watson institute at Brown University. . Steve -- is -- continued Thirtysomething Harvard professor who blogs about. Contemporary poetry and separately about his three year old -- taste …”

“…written homes with movies in them they tend to be movies with Katharine Hepburn in them butts. I find myself moot. To right and having a sense that it got something new to say. Less often …”

Whose Words These Are (9): Sarah Kay

Whose Words These Are (9): Sarah Kay

In anticipation of the 2009 Massachusetts Poetry Festival, the question has been: where does poetry come from these days? And where is it going? Before she could write, spoken word poet Sarah Kay began dictating poems to her mother. Today, at 21, Sarah has become a successful, artful practitioner of spoken word. Sarah’s [...]

Audio|Wed, 7 Oct 2009
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“…to any -- And I am not and that keeps my old high school from falling into the -- ever. Unofficially she's sort of the woman behind. Behind the way that gets everything and put school the United Nations international school in Manhattan. …”

“…pardon didn't enter into my life until I was a freshman in high school and there is that it was. I decided that I needed to learn how to get over my crippling stage try it. …”

Whose Words These Are (8): Rosanna Warren

Whose Words These Are (8): Rosanna Warren

In anticipation of the 2009 Massachusetts Poetry Festival, where does poetry come from these days? And where is it going? Rosanna Warren says it’s a tremendous relief to meet people who know her work and don’t know that she’s the daughter of the triple-threat poet, critic and novelist Robert Penn Warren (1905 – 1989). [...]

Audio|Tue, 6 Oct 2009
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“…eat until very recently an educated. Person in. In England or the United States would have had some Latin and had some experience in. Translating how examiner. And reading notes of Morrison. Then nobody Thompson could tell us perhaps. And even if they hadn't had something like a high school Latin education. In the readings seventeen -- English poetry reading John -- and reading George Herbert your reading stands us that are …”

“…Great privilege of having very good Latin teachers. Back in the United States -- so adored provident tallest and Horace that I began to not write -- in Latin but to try. To get effects …”

Whose Words These Are (7): Vendler’s Stevens

Whose Words These Are (7): Vendler’s Stevens

What is it about Wallace Stevens (1879 – 1955), that such a variety of our contemporaries speak of an attachment that does not hang on “meaning”? Ask who or what drew them to poetry and, over and over, the answer is: Wallace Stevens. Typically it was long before they quite knew what he [...]

Audio|Mon, 5 Oct 2009
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“…well. So at the point of Capone starting off with this is. Emily Dickinson also started off from the Stephens started off in another -- cult following on Sunday is I am not going to go …”

“…Listen in some ways than misconceptions. That looks for us as always writing books. . For a Stevens is thinking up new forms. But he's also writing -- But stripped of its. American poems at the same …”

Whose Words These Are (6): Ron Slate

Whose Words These Are (6): Ron Slate

In anticipation of the 2009 Massachusetts Poetry Festival, where does poetry come from these days? And where is it going? Ron Slate is the poet who flies business class. He’s also the corporate strategist of darting eye and allusive readings with nothing of the boardroom or the brochure about himself or his language. [...]

Audio|Fri, 2 Oct 2009
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“…line of New England corporate burgers from right wonderfully. This is open source from the Watson institute. University. The portrait series vehicle whose words these are. On the way to the Massachusetts portrait festival in October. We're looking around and asking where is portrayed in this country in this age this neighborhood. And it runs for eight years ago when he did high tech business strategy. And then again in his first book report street at 855. To keep and -- and his website on the …”

“…of the art that this moment. In time I'm thinking in the United States in 2009. Where we hadn't torture I think I think poetry right now it I see this in the work of -- …”

Tracy Kidder: “…faith that looks through death”

Tracy Kidder: “…faith that looks through death”

Tracy Kidder actually finds a needle in the haystack — a kernel of inspiration in a continent of bad news — in his virtually irresistible new saga (with a Wordsworth title) Strength in What Remains. The bad news is the ongoing massacres and underlying misery in East Central Africa – in the neighborhood of Rwanda, [...]

Audio|Thu, 1 Oct 2009
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“…the beliefs. The stakes are really -- there magnified here in the United States you lose your. Figure party loses the election you go and get a job and I think -- university could -- that. …”

“…Arab. I'm African we have the same -- of the same religion book readers are contests built in to. Those distinctions what where do you come out in the end I don't know what this. Constructive …”

Whose Words These Are (5): Jericho Brown

Whose Words These Are (5): Jericho Brown

In anticipation of the 2009 Massachusetts Poetry Festival, where does poetry come from these days? And where is it going? Jericho Brown was born and raised in Shreveport, but did his growing-up in New Orleans. Library daycare introduced him to Shelley’s love poetry; the black church introduced him to call-and-response testimony and poetic performance. Fresh [...]

Audio|Wed, 30 Sep 2009
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“…response testimonies. And athletic performance. The great girl singers of pop like Diana Ross and Janis Joplin showed in the power of voice. And of the color -- all of which he demonstrated for us to grow your tortured …”

“…Janis Joplin. . Check five. Summertime. As performed. Budget Chaplin. …”

Whose Words These Are (4): Joan Houlihan

Whose Words These Are (4): Joan Houlihan

In anticipation of the 2009 Massachusetts Poetry Festival, where does poetry come from these days? And where is it going? Joan Houlihan has rebuilt a poetry nest in Concord, Massachusetts — home of the “American Renaissance” of Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott & Co. in the 1850s, the town where, in Susan Cheever’s line, “most of American [...]

Audio|Tue, 29 Sep 2009
|high schoolfound at2:47, 6:29

“…many others well those are -- my heroes. Whoever Hopkins. -- certainly Sylvia Plath who I think has been overshadowed for so long by her. Biography. Has yet really to emerge from from that for the consummate poet she was. In fact I think probably Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath and and then for female poets huge huge influences for me. And and also. Both giving me as a female a way to look at. Being part of that that poetry pantheon because up until then you know through high school and reading. Very prescribed -- kinds of literature and and parochial school. It was male oriented and so and also. Oriented toward …”

“…Well Europe Google to be applied Sylvia Plath a great -- Hidden behind the biography. …”

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