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Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Prose on Poetry
Two recent additions to prose writing on poetry worth your time: Rachel Donadio's profile of Helen Vendler and Richard Chess's essay on "The Poetry of Survival." (How lucky am I to have worked with both Helen Vendler and Richard Chess?)
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Very lucky. :) I'm not familiar with Richard Chess, but I've been in several of Vendler's classes and she's a fantastic teacher. (She even brought Seamus Heaney in for class one day, which was one of the coolest things ever.)
Erika Dreifus lives and writes in New York City. Her story collection, Quiet Americans, will be published in January 2011 by Last Light Studio Books. Erika is a contributing editor for The Writer magazine and an advisory board member forJ Journal: New Writing on Justice, and she wrote the section on "Choosing a Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing" for the second edition of Tom Kealey's Creative Writing MFA Handbook (Continuum, 2008). Erika's writing practice encompasses fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. For more about Erika's writing, please visit her website.
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Very lucky. :) I'm not familiar with Richard Chess, but I've been in several of Vendler's classes and she's a fantastic teacher. (She even brought Seamus Heaney in for class one day, which was one of the coolest things ever.)
Nancy, you're so right--she's a remarkable teacher. And that Heaney visit must have been great.
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