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Weldon Kees: brilliant, polymathic, and doomed. Here's the film.
The short, brilliant life of poet Weldon Kees in a new film produced by Dana Gioia, former director of the National Endowment for the Arts and former…
 • Cynthia L. Haven
On the 30th anniversary of Joseph Brodsky's death
Brodsky no longer belongs to controversy or commemoration. He belongs to language – where he always insisted poets reside.
 • Cynthia L. Haven
Sage advice from Carl Jung
"No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown allies will come and seek you." ~ Carl…
 • Cynthia L. Haven
Meet C.S. Lewis's brainy wife
It’s been 20 years since I published a profile of C.S.
 • Cynthia L. Haven
Nicolás Maduro - After the Scapegoat
A guest post from blogger William C. Green from 2 + 2 = 5
 • Cynthia L. Haven and William C. Green
Modiano: is he a modern-day Proust?
Nobel author Patrick Modiano's "In the Café of Lost Youth" brings anonymous lives to light. Join us on February 18 for a Stanford discussion of the…
 • Cynthia L. Haven
"She had a whim of iron": Remembering British-American poet Anne Stevenson
"Study history. Study science. Study philosophy or psychology if you must. Study languages and the way they work. Study literature. But above all, learn…
 • Cynthia L. Haven
Cynthia’s Substack
Cynthia’s Substack
About books, culture, and my nutty preoccupations. I welcome conversations about French theorist René Girard, Nobel poets Czesław Miłosz and Joseph Brodsky. I knew all 3 and wrote books about all 3. All are gone, so we're left with memories and words.
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