Tag Archives: Archibald MacLeish

The reporter as artist

“What is uttered from the heart alone, will win the hearts of others to your own.” —Goethe “I was signed up in the Writer’s Workshop at Iowa, so I was a poet and they didn’t let you cross over. If … Continue reading

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Poetry & journalism

“Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.”—John Updike As with David Shields, when Archibald MacLeish talks about “poetry” he means poetry in the larger sense of writing that is literary art vs. writing … Continue reading

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Bob Dylan meets Archibald MacLeish

Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982) won three Pulitzer prizes, two for poetry and one for his play about Job, J.B, which also won a Tony Award. His collected poems won the National Book Award. Like some other famous writers of his generation, … Continue reading

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