The Evolution of Present-Day Greece: Talking with Nanos Valaoritis
Poet and author Nanos Valaoritis discusses the political and cultural situation in Greece today.
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Posts Tagged: Dylan Thomas
So Much Love of Death: A Crown of Violets by Renée Vivien
Translation always sacrifices something, and Pious, in her translations, has been consistent about the choice to cleave to some formal principles and lean away from others.
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Barbara Berman’s 2017 Holiday Poetry Shout-Out
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Barbara Berman offers gift recommendations for the poets on your holiday shopping list.
...moreNew Dylan Thomas Poem, Fresh Off the Presses
It’s the literary equivalent of a lost Beatles track. In 1942, Dylan Thomas published a poem in Lilliput magazine. Shortly thereafter, the magazine went defunct, and its archives were acquired by “the late porn baron Paul Raymond.” Today, the poem will be unveiled to the public for the first time in seventy years.
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The Last Poem I Loved: “On Turning Ten” by Billy Collins
I wish I could tell my daughter to please don’t leave her world. To stay where she is as long as she can.
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Barbara Berman’s National Poetry Month Picks
Barbara Berman offers some quality suggestions on poetry to read during the month of April, and beyond.
...moreA Century of Dylan Thomas
“Dylan is very emotional but like a good Welshman also very suspicious. Thus when he has expressed himself very warmly, in fact exposed himself, he will suddenly react violently towards a self-sneering cynicism.” Dylan Thomas would have turned 100 a couple of weeks ago. Over at the London Review of Books, Seamus Perry looks at […]
...moreThe Grand Gesture and Other Thoughts About Graduation
An HTMLGIANT/Rumpus Joint Publication
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