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...CS: Well, that’s a long question. Starting off with the early American modernists: Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane and William Carlos Williams. I would say my great loves which I can read with infinite, infinite pleasure would be Wallace Stevens and Emily Dickinson...
...CS: I’m usually reading three or four books at a time. I’m reading a Polish poet, Czeslaw Milosz, whose collected poems have just come out. Like everybody else, I’m reading a lot of newspapers and magazines about these events...
...CS: There’s a long list. I don’t know who’s young anymore. There’s a wonderful poet I like very much called Mary Ruefle. There is always a lot of talent among young poets...
Swanson's philosophy is simple: raise expectations and then give students the support they need to meet them. AVID targets the kids most educational crusaders ignore--the ones in the middle, coasting by with Cs and Ds, whose families don't expect them to do much beyond high school. Students must choose on their own to enroll (and thus demonstrate their commitment), and once they do, they are placed in their school's most accelerated classes. For one period each day they meet with their AVID instructor, who teaches them, in essence, how to learn--what kind of questions...
Sources: Coordination Committee for the Safeguard of the Tower of Pisa; University of Pisa; CS Informatica, Pisa: Eyewitness Guide to Italy; Associated Press