Hillel Italie

LATEST ARTICLES BY Hillel Italie

• Culture

  

  Poet Amanda Gorman: ‘Even as we grieved, we grew.’

  January 20, 2021 By Hillel Italie

  It was an extraordinary task for Gorman, the youngest by far of the poets who have read at presidential inaugurations.

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• Arts

  

  Poets honor ‘migration’ paintings of Jacob Lawrence

  May 8, 2015 By Hillel Italie

  For a tribute in verse to one of the 20th century's greatest painters, the late Jacob Lawrence, only the finest poets would do.

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• Arts

  

  Actress Lauren Bacall, who protested Hollywood blacklist, dies at 89

  August 14, 2014 By Hillel Italie

  "Stardom isn't a career," Bacall once observed, "it's an accident." What a lucky accident it turned out to be.

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• U.S.

  

  Philip Levine named country’s poet laureate

  August 10, 2011 By Hillel Italie

  Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Levine, known for his detailed and personal verse about the working class, has been appointed the country's new poet laureate.

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