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Formal Help: Muldoon, Rukeyser and Hirsch

This fourth post, from a series of eight, draws from an archive of recently discovered audio recordings of America's most important modern poets, taken during Pearl London's renowned poetry seminars at...

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A Poet’s Poet: Robert Frost

This fifth post, from a series of eight, draws from an archive of recently discovered audio recordings of America's most important modern poets, taken during Pearl London's renowned poetry seminars at...

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Lucille Clifton reads “The Thirty Eighth Year”

While visiting Pearl London's class, Lucille Clifton--with tenderness, weight, a slight sadness--read her poem "The Thirty Eighth Year," which, as she tells the class, was the only poem of hers ever to...

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Partial Draft of June Jordon’s “Poem for South African Women”

One of the things that I included in the book whenever I could was copies of the drafts or typescripts that poets brought with them to share with Pearl London and her students. I was especially drawn...

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Writing the Parent: Muldoon, Clifton, Hirsch and Matthews on family poems

This sixth post, from a series of eight, draws from an archive of recently discovered audio recordings of America's most important modern poets, taken during Pearl London's renowned poetry seminars at...

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Wrestling with Loss: Hirsch, Grennan and Matthews on Loss as the Basis of Poetry

This seventh post, from a series of eight, draws from an archive of recently discovered audio recordings of America's most important modern poets, taken during Pearl London's renowned poetry seminars...

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Robert Pinsky’s “The Want Bone”

When Robert Pinsky speaks with Pearl London as a guest in one of her seminars, London asks him about the "want bone"--the word, the object, and the poem. Pinsky obliges by talking through the...

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“Poetry in Person” is now available in paperback

First a hardcover, then an expanded audio edition, and now finally Poetry in Person is out in paperback.  The material for the book was born in the classroom—specifically in Pearl London’s New School...

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Six American Poets Laureate in “Poetry in Person”

This final post, from a series of eight, draws from an archive of recently discovered audio recordings of America's most important modern poets, taken during Pearl London's renowned poetry seminars at...

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Marylin Hacker and the journey of the woman artist

When Marylin Hacker visited Pearl London's class in April of 1980, they spent much of the time discussing Hacker's poem "The Hang-Glider's Daughter." The poem, which looks like free verse but is in...

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