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David Yezzi

David Yezzi

David Yezzi's latest collection of poems is Birds of the Air (Carnegie Mellon). A former director of the Unterberg Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, Mr. Yezzi has contributed poems and criticism to The New York Times Book Review, The Times Literary Supplement, The Wall Street Journal, The Paris Review, The New Republic, Poetry, The Yale Review, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. A former Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University, he is the author of Azores (Swallow Press), The Hidden Model (TriQuarterly), and the chapbook Sad Is Eros from Aralia Press.

article archive

The bitter fool | April 2013

Poetry has become sterile, but we can still find realism, humor, and intensity in the satiric impulse.


An interview with John Dubrow | December 2012

A talk with the painter about his work & figurative art.


Exhibition note | September 2012

On "Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series” at Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.


A high-wire performance | May 2012

From "Remembering Hilton Kramer."


"Power of some sort or other": on poems and prayers | April 2012

On the shared history of poems and prayers.

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Birds of the Air (Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series)

Birds of the Air (Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series)

by David Yezzi

$15.95

 

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Azores: Poems

Azores: Poems

by David Yezzi

$12.95

 

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Elucidations & Corrections: Arts Criticism

The Goldring Arts Journalism Program S. I. New House School of Public Communications at Syracuse University honors "The New Criterion."

Posted on: 01/19/2010

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Roger Kimball, Jay Nordlinger, James Panero, David YezziLaura Jacobs


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blog article archive

For the Birds | Mar 10, 2010 10:54 AM


Daniel Brown on Cortland Review | Sep 08, 2009 03:29 PM


Poetry Class at the Y | Aug 10, 2009 11:55 AM


Dante & the Restoration (of St. John the Divine) | Apr 07, 2009 05:31 PM


Sixty Sonnets | Mar 30, 2009 11:09 AM

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