Amplified

The perks include a $35,000 stipend, a $5,000 travel allowance, cultural cachet and a swanky office at the Library of Congress — aptly called the Poetry Room, replete with furniture from the English Edwardian and American Colonial Revival periods and a view of the Capitol.

(More on the new Poet Laureate, this time from TIME)


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Listening on Sunday to a radio playing Ezra Pound's wartime radio broadcasts of propaganda and poetry is an eerie experience, the original broadcasts - somehow amplified in the present - echoing uncannily in my mind.


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Passengers spoke of hearing a loud bang and debris flying into the first class cabin as the plane’s flooring gave way, part of the ceiling collapsed and the plane reportedly plunged 20,000ft.


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I am glad it is Friday. Very glad. And I will be more glad when the workday ends today, even though I am still on-call and will be on-call for the weekend.


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Clue: Crap Class!


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