Smithsonian Cancels Asian American Literary Festival
"In a move that stunned the institution’s event partners and writers who value its sense of community, the program was canceled just weeks before it was to take place in August....'As someone working closely in the core planning team, if there were serious concerns about timeliness, about progress, and how on track we were—I did not receive any of that concern prior to the decision.'"
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What Sparks Poetry:
Lloyd Wallace on Charles Simic's The World Doesn’t End
"It’s days like this that I get most upset that I will one day die. It’s also days like this I feel most fortunate to have a book like Charles Simic’s The World Doesn’t End to carry with me through my days—a book which, for all the violence it contains, all the liquid strangeness, all the pain, has always seemed to me to look at death with a steady, if somewhat smoky, optimism." |
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