Generally when somebody says to the editor of a radio program “I’m going to get a grant to do long-form multimedia reporting with a poet writing about the working poor,” the editor gets a look on his face. Poetry and poverty — not the most popular subjects in the rundown. But when that somebody is [...]
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Women
Posted in Literary, Video, Visual Art, tagged poetry, Troy, In Verse, Virginia Quarterly Review, single mothers, Somers-Willett, Billie Jean, Keannelly, Genoways, Olkowski on November 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The old poet and the radios
Posted in Japan, Literary, tagged poetry, shuntaro tanikawa, Tokyo, vintage radios on November 12, 2008 | 6 Comments »
While the girls were hanging out in Golden Gai last night, I was picked up by William Elliott and Kazui Kawamura, the English translators of the poet Shuntaro Tanikawa and taken to an undisclosed location to meet the poet himself. I had met Tanikawa in Copenhagen 10 years ago and immediately liked him and his [...]
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