Hugh Nicoll’s Weblog

On March 6, Bill Moyers’s Journal celebrated poetry. The elegy for the Dodge Poetry Festival, cancelled for 2010, was excerpted from Fooling With Words produced in 2000. The segment features readings shorter and longer, including Kurtis Lamkin, Sharon Olds, W.S. Merwin and Coleman Barks. Lamkin performs with the kora, while Barks’s concluding reading features a [...]

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I’ve been reading Simon Schama’s The American Future: A History over the last few weeks in preparation for re-thinking my Introduction to American Studies course for this year. Schama uses the lens of the Obama campaign to look forward and back at American history in ways that make the USA refreshingly familiar and simultaneously brand [...]

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