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DENISE LEVERTOV AND THE MUSIC OF RISK

June 08, 2026 by DAVID M KATZ in Black Mountain, Elizabeth Bishop, Ezra Pound, Joel Oppenheiner, Poetry by the Sea, Robert Duncan, W.H. Auden

In these troubled times, Denise Levertov’s political poetry offers today’s poets a model for how to compose their own responses to the zeitgeist. In our darker moments readers might discover in Levertov’s late spiritual verse a way to open their minds to analogous quests.

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June 08, 2026 /DAVID M KATZ
Denise Levertov, Robert Duncan, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, W.H. Auden, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Charles Olson, Black Mountain, Joel Oppenheimer, T.S. Eliot, Mitchell Goodman, Viet Nam War
Black Mountain, Elizabeth Bishop, Ezra Pound, Joel Oppenheiner, Poetry by the Sea, Robert Duncan, W.H. Auden
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THE FICKLE ARM OF FATE

October 10, 2020 by DAVID M KATZ in Paul Blackburn, Joel Oppenheiner, Whitey Ford

Viva Casey Stengel! Had Whitey pitched that game, a great poem by Paul Blackburn might never have existed.

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October 10, 2020 /DAVID M KATZ
Paul Blackburn, Joel Oppenheimer, Whitey Ford, Tyler Kepner
Paul Blackburn, Joel Oppenheiner, Whitey Ford
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