Poetry and the Mouth

26Jul07

Poetry and the Mouth:
from the blog of the poet, Annie Finch
Hart Crane by candlelight, Longfellow on a cake, and the scoop on the amazing Patricia Smith
Sitting on the back porch on a very foggy Maine summer night, reading Hart Crane by flickering candlelight to Kazim Ali and his partner, I share with them “Proem: [...]

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William Faulkner’s Nobel Prize Speech

24Jul07

I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work–a life’s work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit [...]

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