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Don't you love it when the New York Times imitates life? When I saw today's article about sipping on a sunset and thinking about Italy, I couldn't decide if I should laugh or cry. I came back from Sardegna to... Continue reading
Posted Aug 8, 2012 at The Best American Poetry
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Happy New Year! I'm just sorry that I couldn't find the scratch-n-sniff version of this image that is intentionally out-of-season for many of us who read this blog. Time passes, seasons change: yep, that's what they do. Hope you're dug... Continue reading
Posted Jan 1, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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Happy Mother's Day to all of you moms out there! Like many wandering Americans, I've spent much of my adult life living in places that happen to be far away from my mother, from New York to Dublin, from Thessaloniki... Continue reading
Posted May 9, 2010 at The Best American Poetry
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We can't be there, but we hope you can. Continue reading
Posted Dec 5, 2009 at The Best American Poetry
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That floating, tooth-shaped thing and the wiggle beneath it are murmurations of starlings. Yes, that really is the collective noun for starlings: nice, isn't it? There was a beautiful photo essay about Rome's starlings in the NYT a couple of... Continue reading
Posted Nov 27, 2009 at The Best American Poetry
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[Vesuvius looming over Naples] Things I remember from the first time I visited Naples: it was mercilessly hot. Our hotel room was tiny, brown, and stifling, and the toilet paper was, well, awful. I couldn't sleep because, out on the... Continue reading
Posted Nov 12, 2009 at The Best American Poetry
This just in! Tomorrow (Thursday) at 5 p.m. Rome time (11 a.m. East Coast Time), listen to an interview on RAI with John Ashbery on the occasion of Un mondo che non può essere migliore: Poesie scelte 1956-2007 (translated by... Continue reading
Posted Oct 21, 2009 at The Best American Poetry