http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/10/the-old-new-world/ A blog from the Poetry Foundation where contemporary poets debate classic and contemporary poetry from America and around the world. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:29:31 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/10/the-old-new-world/#comment-1197 Tatiana Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:50:11 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=434#comment-1197 very interesting and informative very interesting and informative

]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/10/the-old-new-world/#comment-1196 Kyla Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:49:31 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=434#comment-1196 Thank you. Thank you.

]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/10/the-old-new-world/#comment-1195 Jade Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:04:35 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=434#comment-1195 Thank you. Thank you.

]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/10/the-old-new-world/#comment-1194 Francisco Aragón Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:44:57 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=434#comment-1194 Hi Alicia: I forgot to add: (!) I'm also going to be in Chicago on Sunday for a Guild Complex board meeting, and depending on the timing of things. I'm going to try and make your reading. F Hi Alicia:
I forgot to add: (!)
I’m also going to be in Chicago on Sunday for a Guild Complex board meeting, and depending on the timing of things. I’m going to try and make your reading.
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]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/10/the-old-new-world/#comment-1193 Francisco Aragón Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:42:43 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=434#comment-1193 Hi Alicia: I will be in Chicago this coming Wednesday, October 17 to attend a reading by the poet, Peter Ramos, who is flying in from Buffalo. Peter graciously agreed to fill in for a poet who had to back out of PALABRA PURA----the Chicago reading series I co-curate with the Guild Complex. The series takes place on the third Wednesday of the month at the California Clipper. For more information, please visit: <a href="http://guildcomplex.org" rel="nofollow">http://guildcomplex.org</a> F Hi Alicia:
I will be in Chicago this coming Wednesday, October 17 to attend a reading by the poet, Peter Ramos, who is flying in from Buffalo. Peter graciously agreed to fill in for a poet who had to back out of PALABRA PURA—-the Chicago reading series I co-curate with the Guild Complex. The series takes place on the third Wednesday of the month at the California Clipper. For more information, please visit: http://guildcomplex.org
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]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/10/the-old-new-world/#comment-1192 Alicia (AE) Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:38:20 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=434#comment-1192 Thanks for your comments. Hope to meet you in Chicago, Francisco. Andrew, great story! I don't think I knew that... unless you told it to me before. Thanks for your comments. Hope to meet you in Chicago, Francisco. Andrew, great story! I don’t think I knew that… unless you told it to me before.

]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/10/the-old-new-world/#comment-1191 Andrew Shields Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:24:42 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=434#comment-1191 "The term was newly coined in 1688 by Johannes Hofer (1669-1752), a Swiss medical student." Whenever I get homesick (which is not often), I think of this nice bit of trivia: "nostalgia" was coined by Hofer to refer to the Swiss mountain people's homesickness for their mountains whenever they were "down in the valley," so to speak. AND he coined the term in Basel, where I live! “The term was newly coined in 1688 by Johannes Hofer (1669-1752), a Swiss medical student.”
Whenever I get homesick (which is not often), I think of this nice bit of trivia: “nostalgia” was coined by Hofer to refer to the Swiss mountain people’s homesickness for their mountains whenever they were “down in the valley,” so to speak. AND he coined the term in Basel, where I live!

]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/10/the-old-new-world/#comment-1190 Francisco Aragon Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:14:35 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=434#comment-1190 I appreciate and empathize with, I think, one of the undercurrents of this post. During the years I lived in Spain (1988 -1998), despite how much I loved living there (and would go back in a heartbeat under better circumstances), I sometimes did very feel isolated. My day job was hawking the English language to professionals in their places of work (eeking out a living wage) all the while trying to write and translate poems. I've been enjoying your posts and look forward to seeking out your work. I'm especially interested, for obvious reasons, in growing more acquainted with those (American) poets who are taking a crack at from "the Old World" as I tried for a stretch. I'm going to try and make your reading in Chicago. I appreciate and empathize with, I think, one of the undercurrents of this post.
During the years I lived in Spain (1988 -1998), despite how much I loved living there (and would go back in a heartbeat under better circumstances), I sometimes did very feel isolated.
My day job was hawking the English language to professionals in their places
of work (eeking out a living wage) all the while trying to write and translate poems.
I’ve been enjoying your posts and look forward to seeking out your work. I’m especially
interested, for obvious reasons, in growing more acquainted with those (American) poets
who are taking a crack at from “the Old World” as I tried for a stretch.
I’m going to try and make your reading in Chicago.

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