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Hometown reporting on Philip Levine’s appointment as US Poet Laureate from the Fresno Bee in California. Levine was born in Detroit and started teaching at Fresno State in 1958. The university didn’t even have a creative writing program at the time. His close friend and fellow poet Peter Everwine,…
Read More »Poetry is front-page news online tonight. That’s different. The NYTimes tonight reports that Philip Levine is the new U.S. Poet Laureate. Read Charles McGrath’s article here, and get the NYT if you want more. Phil Levine was one of my poet-heroes when I started writing in the mid-1970s. I admired…
Read More »“River Board” by Richard Marion (c) 2011
Read More »From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: “The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (or CETA, Public Law 93-203) is a United States federal law enacted in 1973 to train workers and provide them with jobs in the public service. “The program offered work to those with low incomes and the long term…
Read More »Last night, I watched on cable TV the 2010 award-winning French film “Of Gods and Men,” which is based on real events involving a small community of Trappist monks in Algeria in 1995. It is a period of civil war with Islamic extremists trying to impose their will on the local population.…
Read More »Folklorist Maggie Holtzberg of Lowell National Historical Park and the Massachusetts Cultural Council posted many photographs with commentary from the recent Lowell Folk Festival on her blog Keepers of Tradition, which you can find on the rh.com blogroll to the right on the home page. Here’s the connection.
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Read More »This week’s New Yorker magazine includes a “Talk of the Town” piece by Elizabeth Kolbert about a recent field trip to Mt. Greylock in western Mass. that recreates the July 1844 climb of Henry David Thoreau, described in “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.” Today’s NYTimes has a brief…
Read More »Read the latest from NASA on today’s planned launch of the Juno spacecraft for its journey to Jupiter five years from now. “Juno will help us understand how the solar system formed, and how all the planets formed, from the solar nebula some 4.5bn years ago,” said Jack Connerney, deputy…
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