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Armen Davoudian at Poetry Daily

Wake-up Call by Armen Davoudian from Smartish Pace 26 featured today at Poetry Daily!
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Jason Gray Poetry Reading - June 9, 2019

Jason Gray read for us and you can watch it here!  [ read more ]

Bob Hicok on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

Bob Hicok discusses economic hardship in Michigan and reads a new poem.

Interview with Karoly Sandor

STEPHEN REICHERT:You were born in Budapest, Hungary on August 23, 1931. How did you make your way to Canada in 1957 and what are your memories of Budapest? KAROLY SANDOR: I had an active part in the 1956 revolution. Worried over this my wife and I decided to leave the country. They caught and jailed us. We escaped, went to Veinna, Austria, four days later to England, five months later to Canada. To the second part of your question about my memories of Budapest: The most beautiful, inspiring, on the account of its women and history, city in the world, also a very tough place if you have a mild complexion and live in a working-class district. The street where I lived was 3 blocks long, when I was five, it had six pubs. In 1996 I was interviewed by the Hungarian Radio's English Language Broadcast program. I told them about remembering buildings, people in them, the fights after the dances, the smiles of those who tolerated by infractions. How did they do that? I took my clothes off on that program (Charlie Coutts Director, retired since) and confessed: I am in love with Budapest. REICHERT: How ... [ read more ]

Dan Brady: Strange Children

How do we survive trauma? In times of crisis, from where do we pull strength and build hope? Dan Brady explores these questions in his first full-length collection, Strange Children.   Brady’s project is an intimate narrative: a medical crisis threatens a couple’s plans for the future. The poem “Stroke Diary” beautifully chronicles the grief and fear of that unknown, and the tenacity and moments of triumph that make survival possible.  Our life together, [ read more ]