The zuihitsu, for which there is no Western counterpart, is a Japanese genre sometimes described as a prose miscellany or random notes.
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May 25, 2000
June 14, 2000
Poems By Heart brings people together to recite from memory the poems they love. Participants are asked to memorize a new poem each month that someone else has written.
July 19, 2000
Poems By Heart brings people together to recite from memory the poems they love. Participants are asked to memorize a new poem each month that someone else has written.
September 20, 2000
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October 11, 2000
Poems By Heart brings people together to recite from memory the poems they love. Participants are asked to memorize a new poem each month that someone else has written.
October 12, 2000
Librettists, poets and scholars Ishmael Reed and Kenward Elmslie read from their work and discuss the connections between poetry and opera.
October 14, 2000
Acclaimed writer and author of the Easy Rawlins mystery series Walter Mosley joins Staten Island native and poet/novelist Donna Masini to read from their work and
October 19, 2000
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) was revered during his lifetime as America's beloved national bard, and for generations afterwards he was a staple of the hearthside and the schoolroom.
October 26, 2000
World musician Fareed Haque improvises on the guitar to accompany two vocalists performing the poetry of Pablo Neruda in English and Spanish.
Featuring Robert Chapman, Linda Susan Jackson, Jacqueline Johnson and Luis Reyes Rivera