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Cowboy poetry slams, new-gen yodelling and Basque bites: Getting wild out west in Nevada’s Elko

It’s barely sunrise, but I’m already warming up my voice for a yodelling session with Kristyn Harris – a young buck reviving this time-honoured...

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The Poet Shane McCrae Goes Back to Hell

McCrae’s work obsessively retreads paths through Heaven, history, and eternal torment. What can we learn from his relentless investigation of...

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“Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry,” Reviewed

Sometimes seen as the stuff of commencement addresses, his poems are hard to pin down—just like the man behind them.

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Ronald Johnson’s American Romanticism

An inheritor of a distinct tradition that stretched back to Coleridge and Emerson, Johnson’s naturalistic poetry was immersive and intimate all at...

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From the Archives: Face of Great Actress Subtle Even in Death

Reporting From Paris — Sarah Bernhardt -- a famous French actress -- died March 26, 1923, in Paris. She was 78. She has a star on the Hollywood...

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