Tag Archives: poets’ memoirs

Life Lesson: What I Learned from Mr. Levine

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March 4, 2015 by author

By Jean Macpherson

I never met Philip Levine except through his published words. If I had to write about the one thing that most attracted me to his work it is his fearless ability to express working-class traits with abandon … Continue reading→

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Full Circle: How One Poetry Reading Changed Everything

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August 11, 2014 by author

Victor D. Infante

By Randall Horton

A bedraggled man sits on the steps of the Bleeker Street Station in Manhattan – one shoe on, one shoe off. He talks to himself so fast the words in his mind cannot possibly keep up with … Continue reading→

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Bookstores

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June 7, 2011 by author

Victor D. Infante

By Dave Macpherson

We were in Wordsworth’s Books in Harvard Square, where we had been many times before. We were going through the stacks of poetry and I stopped, looked again at what I thought I noticed, and said, “Ah, … Continue reading→

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Excerpts from “The Poison Tree”

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April 19, 2011 by author

Victor D. Infante

By Eric John Priestley

Lucky Old Son

I first moved to the Poison Tree in 1982. The FBI had burned the Watts Writers’ Workshop down in 1973. I had no place else to go. It was cold in East Los … Continue reading→