SHORT INTRO This old thing is my favourite poem by Delmore Schwartz, and in my top 100 favourite poems. This one is copied from the Poetry Foundation site, citation at the bottom.There may be many good pictures of Schwartz but I haven’t found them. These are from https://pcolman.wordpress.com/tag/lou-reed/. A blog by Padraig Colman.Lou Reed took
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The Ballad of the Children of the Czar
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Poets’ Poker Night in Regina
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The Sad Phoenician – an advent alphabet
Robert Kroetsch entered my life in 1979, teaching the advanced creative writing workshop at the University of Manitoba. I heard him read The Sad Phoenician in 1979 the year it was published by Coach House Press. The reading was in St John’s College, the Chapel I like to think. The very same chapel in which
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