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theartsdesk in New York: Poets House

theartsdesk in New York: Poets House

An urban convalescence: the exhibition space at Poets HouseAll photographs by Elizabeth Felicella
What do you do when, on a bright December day in New York City, you have a sudden urge to read Tennyson’s "Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky?" You could get Google to flash up the eight stanzas, or if you’re feeling romantically old-school, you could go to Poets House (no apostrophe - "Some things must never be possessed but shared," said a founder and two-time poet laureate, the late Stanley Kunitz, who died at the age of 100 in 2006) and look it up.
What do you do when, on a bright December day in New York City, you have a sudden urge to read Tennyson’s "Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky?" You could get Google to flash up the eight stanzas, or if you’re feeling romantically old-school, you could go to Poets House (no apostrophe - "Some things must never be possessed but shared," said a founder and two-time poet laureate, the late Stanley Kunitz, who died at the age of 100 in 2006) and look it up.

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Great article about a great-sounding place - it will definitely be on my agenda my next trip to New York!

It looks like "An Urban Convalescence" is by James Merrill, and not Frank O'Hara.

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