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Contributor News: Praise for "The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai," translated by Robert Alter.

Contributor News: Praise for “The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai,” translated by Robert Alter.

ILLUSTRATION: Riccardo Vecchio; SOURCE: The New Yorker Writing in The New Yorker, James Woods reviews the long-awaited collected poems of Yehuda Amichai, newly translated by eminent scholar Robert Alter and published as The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai.  Some of the poems and Alter’s introduction to them first appeared in Broad Street’s “Dangerous Territory.” http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/01/04/like-a-prayer Alter describes Amichai’s poetry as...
Truth Teller Spotlight: Lea Marshall, poet and dance critic.

Truth Teller Spotlight: Lea Marshall, poet and dance critic.

“The act of writing poetry feels to me like seeking truth, finding ways to write that reveal truths even I may not have known before the poem came to be …”   Lea Marshall, Associate Chair of the dance department at Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts, meshes her creativity in the fields of...