Babette Deutsch

S-a născut în 1895, la New York City. A ținut prelegeri asupra “Poeziei secolului douăzeci” la Universitatea din Columbia. Babette Deutsch este autoarea mai multor volume de poezie și critică literară. A tradus din opera lui Pușkin, Rilke și alții. Pentru operele sale literare a obținut numeroase premii, precum și titlul de Doctor honoris causa. E membră la National Institute of Arts and Letters și e considerată a fi decana literelor americane. A fost căsătorită cu scriitorul A. Jarmolinski. Poemele Babettei Deutsch au fost înmănuncheate în volumul “Selected Poems”. Caracteristic pentru opera autoarei este stăpânirea de sine în fața emoțiilor de tot felul cu care te întâmpină viața. Lirica ei dramatic picturală oferă momente ale vieții de fiecare zi, din care străbat convingerile și experiența sa, dar fără sentimentalism. Poemele, exemplare în sens clasic, înfățișează aspirațiile unui adevărat artist. Pe lângă harul poetic, ea deține și forța de a-și struni poezia, însușindu-și...

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Hal Sirowitz

Hal Sirowitz (born 1949) is an American poet. Sirowitz first began to attract attention at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe where he was a frequent competitor in their Friday Night Poetry Slam. He eventually made the 1993 Nuyorican Poetry Slam team, and competed in the 1993 National Poetry Slam (held that year in San Francisco) along with his Nuyorican teammates Maggie Estep, Tracie Morris and Regie Cabico. Sirowitz would later perform his poetry on stages across the country, and on television programs such as MTV's Spoken Word: Unplugged and PBS's The United States of Poetry. He has written six books on poetry and is arguably best known for the volumes Mother Said, My Therapist Said and Father Said. Sirowitz is a 1994 recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry and is the former Poet Laureate of Queens, New York. He worked as a special education teacher in the New York public school system for 23 years. He is married to the writer Mary Minter Krotzer. Sirowitz is the best-selling translated...

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Hal Sirowitz

Pretending We went to Dan Lynch's, & listened to White musicians pretending that they were Black. And the people next to us jumped up & down, pretending that they were rock stars. And I put my hand on your knee, pretending that I was your lover. You remained aloof. Why did you have to be the only one who insisted on being yourself?

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Hal Sirowitz

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mi hail sadoveanu

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Moby - Richard Melville Hall

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