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...current laureate, Charles Simic, says he was often too busy to talk to his cat. He kept expecting the rush to die down, but it never did. "It's endless interviews," he says. "The position is so well known that sooner or later every newspaper and magazine in the country gets in touch with...
...then there's the correspondence: dozens of e-mails a day from verse-challenged citizens who aren't afraid to go straight to the top. "Requests from schoolteachers asking you to give advice to students on how to read literature," Simic says, "or from a business association in Topeka asking you to read a poem at the opening of a convention. My cell phone would ring, and a high government official would ask me to fix a poem written by her late father to read at his memorial service. Sometimes I wanted to go just to see who these people...
READINGS | Paul Muldoon, Charles Simic, and Donald Hall
...Harvard Advocate hosts their fall reading with three acclaimed poets; Paul Muldoon, Charles Simic and Donald Hall. See these prolific and award-winning authors speak and read from their most recent collections. 6 p.m. Tickets $15; $10 students/seniors. Sackler Museum Auditorium, 485 Broadway...
...HAGUE—There they were—not 20 feet away in the small hearing room—what for many people are the faces of evil itself: Blagoje Simic, Miroslav Tadic and Simo Zaric. These men are on trial for crimes against humanity in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Along with others—most famously Slobodan Milosevic—these men were accused of engaging in a “widespread and systematic attack” against Bosnian Croats and Muslims over the last decade. Initially, ethnic minorities were forced to wear white...