Events
Yetzirah Conference for Jewish Poetry: view a media archive of public events from the 2023 conference, which was held June 21-23 at UNC-Asheville. I spoke on the Writing Contemporary Midrash panel with Dan Bellm, Sally Rosen Kindred, Sharon Dolin, Heather Altfeld, and Nomi Stone, and gave a reading with Rodger Kamenetz, Aviya Kushner, Sam Taylor, and Joanna Fuhrman.
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The USC MPW Writing for Stage and Screen Festival
Three of our MPW students, Kevin Avery, Marlene Leach, and Tom Rastrelli, are having staged readings of their short dramatic writing this Friday and Saturday night at USC. They’ve been working with directors, dramaturgs and actors as they prepare their … Continue reading
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Ai, 1947-2010
I think most of us (meaning people of my age, who began to read poetry pre-Internet) tend to remember who were the first few poets of our own time we encountered when we first began to recognize that poetry was still … Continue reading
Complete freedom
We were listening to Beyond the Fringe in the car today as we drove to Miri’s soccer game. In “Sitting on the Bench,” Peter Cook ruminates, “It’s quite interesting work, mining. You’re given absolute free hand to do whatever you … Continue reading
Rachel Wetzsteon (1967-2009)
Simone de Beauvoir, on the death of Albert Camus: “It wasn’t the fifty-year-old man I was mourning…it was the companion of our hopeful years, whose open face laughed and smiled so easily, the young, ambitious writer, wild to enjoy life, … Continue reading
The travelling poet blogs
Brian Turner, author of Here, Bullet, is the 2010 recipient of the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship, and he’ll be contributing to the New York Times’ Home Fires blog as he travels. His first post is on deciding where–and why–to … Continue reading
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The Natural Laws of Good Luck
When Aimee Liu emailed me the announcement for a Book Soup reading and conversation with Ellen Graf, author of the new memoir The Natural Laws of Good Luck, her brief description of the book reminded me immediately of the author’s … Continue reading
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Virtual Car Wash for Homeboy Industries
Terribly hot in L.A. this week, fires, haze, high pressure system; the moon looks fuzzy tonight because there is so much particulate matter in the air. And Homeboy Industries, the now-venerable job training and services program for former gang members … Continue reading
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Happy birthday, Baby T.
This is the kind of thing that delights a poet in the early twenty-first century: someone makes your poem part of a child’s first birthday celebration and writes about it on a blog.
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Your Bright Future/Late Night Korea
The Master of Professional Writing Program at USC is participating in one of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Late Night Art events, this one on Saturday, September 12, in conjunction with the museum’s exhibition Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists … Continue reading
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Sleepwalking Through September
Retired Philadelphia Phillie Doug Glanville (who was the first African-American Ivy League grad* to play in the major leagues) has been writing a series of Op-Extra columns for the New York Times over the last couple of years. They combine inside glimpses of … Continue reading
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