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• Dante in translation and in Dan Brown's new novel. - New Yorker (2013/05/19 21:03)

  New YorkerDante in translation and in Dan Brown's new novel.New YorkerBut no. By my count there have been something like a hundred English-language translations, and not just by scholars but by blue-chip poets: in the past half century, John Ciardi, Allen Mandelbaum, Robert Pinsky, W. S. Merwin. Liszt and Tchaikovsky ...
• Singing School: A Chorus - Huffington Post (blog) (2013/05/19 07:07)

  Singing School: A ChorusHuffington Post (blog)Robert Pinsky opens his new poetry anthology (with its long title): SINGING SCHOOL: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters -- with an anecdote about the great saxophonist, Dexter Gordon. Gordon, when asked, "Where do you get ...
• Poetry finally joining e-book revolution - The Times Herald (2013/05/18 21:08)

  Poetry finally joining e-book revolutionThe Times Herald“I don't think the people who would buy an e-book of one of my books, or one of (W.S.) Merwin's books would want it other than what it's supposed to look like,” Levine said. Part of the challenge is the devices themselves, with screens varying in size ...
• Boise's poet laureate Diane Raptosh puts the city into poetic perspective - The Idaho Statesman (2013/05/17 23:21)

  The Idaho StatesmanBoise's poet laureate Diane Raptosh puts the city into poetic perspectiveThe Idaho StatesmanPast U.S. poets laureate include W.S. Merwin, Robert Hass, Rita Dove, Robert Penn Warren, Josephine Jacobsen, Robert Frost and Joseph Auslander, who was the first. Schorzman got the idea for a city poet laureate when she met poet Joan Logghe, who ...
• Publishers on a Mission - lareviewofbooks (2013/05/13 00:54)

  Publishers on a MissionlareviewofbooksThere have also been some disappointing developments, like when the contest judge deems no manuscript worthy of publication, most notably, W.S. Merwin judging the Yale Series of Younger Poets in 1997, and Clarence Major judging the Cave Canem ...
• Arts Roundup: Music, art, poetry — and the 2013 MFA Dance Concert - UW Today (2013/05/09 14:14)

  UW TodayArts Roundup: Music, art, poetry — and the 2013 MFA Dance ConcertUW Today... Prize-winning poet Kay Ryan for the 50th annual Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Reading. Over the years, this series has featured such greats as Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Penn Warren, Carolyn Kizer, Gary Snyder, W.S. Merwin, Seamus Heaney and ...
• New Harmony: Desert church digs for Living Water - Deseret News (2013/05/09 04:11)

  Deseret NewsNew Harmony: Desert church digs for Living WaterDeseret NewsU.S. poet laureate W.S. Merwin speaks to the Hawaii Conservation Conference in Honolulu on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011. Audrey McAvoy, AP. Enlarge photo». Jerry Earl Johnston. Deseret News. Summary. I was motoring down the freeway through California's ...
• Ram Dass, Island Boy - Huffington Post (2013/05/03 12:01)

  Ram Dass, Island BoyHuffington PostAs we got up to leave, I was reminded of the last line of the poem "For The Anniversary of My Death" by W.S. Merwin. Merwin happens to be a neighbor of Ram Dass on Maui. The person in the poem is. bowing, not knowing to what. www.rogerhousden.com ...
• After the Marathon Bombings: A Firsthand Account - Huffington Post (blog) (2013/05/01 03:49)

  After the Marathon Bombings: A Firsthand AccountHuffington Post (blog)We must continue to be there for each other. In time, we will return to normalcy, even if it's a newer version of itself. We must endure. As poet W. S. Merwin, in "To a New Year" writes, "our hopes such as they are/ invisible before us/ untouched and ...
• Former poet laureate W.S. Merwin to read at Smith College - MassLive.com (2013/04/28 09:53)

  Former poet laureate W.S. Merwin to read at Smith CollegeMassLive.comLiving on the slopes of an inactive volcano might show a supreme faith in geological science. Or it might just be tempting fate. But in the case of former poet laureate W.S. Merwin, it probably simply shows his embrace of the unknown. Merwin, who lives ...
• WS Merwin's 'Selected Translations' and two new versions of classic poetic ... - Kansas.com (2013/04/28 06:41)

  Kansas.comWS Merwin's 'Selected Translations' and two new versions of classic poetic ...Kansas.comBut even while hearing that caveat rattle around in my head, I still want to praise W.S. Merwin as the finest living poet in America. For one thing, his pedigree exudes excellence: advice from Ezra Pound, instruction from John Berryman and R.P ...
• Poetry Life weekend intends to keep creative language alive - Sarasota Herald-Tribune (blog) (2013/04/26 11:33)

  Poetry Life weekend intends to keep creative language aliveSarasota Herald-Tribune (blog)Nye, an award-winning poet, and W.S. Merwin, former United States Poet Laureate and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, will be on hand for the weekend, working with student poets and teachers. The two are of different generations but have been dear ...
• Patient poetry - Galway Independent (2013/04/23 23:05)

  Patient poetryGalway IndependentMatthew will introduce the poems, including works by W.S. Merwin, Vona Groarke, Paul Muldoon, Elizabeth Bishop, Sharon Olds, and many more. Work from Poetry for Patience will be circulated throughout the waiting areas of University Hospital Galway and ...
• A Graceful Second, Response to Call - San Francisco Classical Voice (2013/04/21 15:59)

  A Graceful Second, Response to CallSan Francisco Classical VoiceHigdon takes five poems, all with musical references in their texts, by W. S. Merwin, also a winner of the Pulitzer Prize. The work she makes out of them, titled In the Shadow of Sirius after the Merwin collection from which the poems come, is not a ...

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