Dec 30 The poets we read in 2013 By Victoria Fleischer Photo by Flickr user Bob AuBuchon As the year comes to a close, Art Beat reflects on our best stories from 2013. On Thursday, we revisited the musicians worth a second listen and on Friday we rediscovered our… Continue reading
Dec 24 A Poetic Odyssey: Dick Davis translates Hafez in “Faces of Love,” his new installment in a life dedicated to medieval Persian literature By Victoria Fleischer // Dick Davis spoke to PBS NewsHour chief arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown about his new book "Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz." According to Dick Davis, Hafez is the poetry world's version of Bach. "People say… Continue reading
Dec 23 Weekly Poem: Dick Davis reads his translation of a 14th century Persian poem By Victoria Fleischer // As a young man, Dick Davis fell in love with Iran and ever since he has dedicated his life to bringing its culture to the west. "Its been a wonderful odyssey." Here he reads his translations of a poem… Continue reading
Dec 16 Weekly Poem: David Lehman reads ‘Yours the Moon’ By Victoria Fleischer Yours the Moon Yours the moon mine the Milky Way a scarf around my neck I love you as the night loves the moon's dark side as the sky, distant, endless, wears her necklace of stars over her dress under… Continue reading
Dec 09 Weekly Poem: Michael Collier reads ‘At the End of a Ninetieth Summer’ By Victoria Fleischer Poet Michael Collier grew up in Arizona, but he hadn't lived there for a while when he wrote "At the End of a Ninetieth Summer." His father was celebrating his 90th birthday, but Collier couldn't return to his home state… Continue reading
Dec 03 Clive James on turning his ‘last time on earth’ into a writing wellspring By Ellen Rolfes Though many Americans know him through his columns for The Atlantic and the New York Review of Books, Clive James inhabits a much larger, diverse role in British culture. This man of letters is a journalist, a cultural… Continue reading
Dec 02 Weekly Poem: Clive James reads ‘Whitman and the Moth’ By Ellen Rolfes In May of 1891, photographer Samuel Murray accompanied the New York sculptor William O'Donovan to Walt Whitman's home in Camden, N.J., Murray photographed Whitman as an aid to O'Donovan's sculpting the poet: "they took hell's times in all sorts of… Continue reading
Nov 25 Weekly Poem: Brenda Hillman reads ‘Till it Finishes What it Does’ By Victoria Fleischer // Brenda Hillman reads "Till it Finishes What it Does" from her new collection "Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire." Till it Finishes What it Does Where is the meaning, the old man asked. The night nurse has put on… Continue reading
Nov 18 Weekly Poem: Michael Davidson reads ‘The Second City’ By Victoria Fleischer The Second City for Cathy Simon Even though there are motorized conveyances I am on foot; even though there is a map I negotiate the streets by landmark there are no landmarks but a series of edges common to several… Continue reading
Nov 11 Weekly Poem: David Lehman reads ‘Radio’ By Victoria Fleischer Radio I left it on when I left the house for the pleasure of coming back ten hours later to the greatness of Teddy Wilson "After You've Gone" on the piano in the corner of the bedroom as I enter… Continue reading