Why reality holds little love for poets
Venclova: "Above all, love language" (Photo: Dylan Vaughan) “To travel through time, a poem must possess a unique intonation and perception.” I’d never read the late great Nobel laureate Joseph...
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"Above all, love language." (Photo: Dylan Vaughan) Diana Senechal discovered the Book Haven, and we discovered her own blog “on education and other things.” One of those other things was Tomas...
View ArticleNYC techie kids buck trend, take on humanities
A group of New York City students have taken on an ambitious venture: a finely produced journal, with 128 pages of dialogues, essays, letters, diaries, poems, roundtable discussions, questions,...
View ArticleTeaching Tobias Wolff’s “Old School” to Hungarian teens – along with the...
A staircase Varga Katalin Gimnázium in Szolnok, Hungary Can Hungarian teenagers “get” an American novel set all the way back in the Kennedy Era? For a magical semester, author, educator, and translator...
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