Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Marie Howe: The Poetry of Eating

"This waiter came in, and we were served 10 courses, or something, of the most extraordinary food. It was like, ‘This course is comprised of April breeze on pond water,’ and ‘This next course will be summer night, half-moon, ocean water.’ And every single bite was exquisite. By the end, I was drunk on food. I was drunk on love. We were in love with the waiter. We were practically licking him. I was in love with the world because of food. I have never known anything like it in my life.”

Read more of our own New York State Poet laureate Marie Howe's restaurant review of The French Laundry in the New York Times:  http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/04/a-poet-at-the-french-laundry/?smid=tw-nytdining

Read more about Marie Howe here: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/howe_marie12.html

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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

The Hungry Ear: Kevin Young

Poet Kevin Young, who visited us in 2005, is making news with his new book on poetry and food:

"It delivers such a groaning board of things to love, from Seamus Heaney on oysters and Lucille Clifton on collard greens to Theodore Roethke on root cellars and Jane Kenyon on shopping at an IGA."

More:  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/22/books/the-hungry-ear-poems-of-food-drink-kevin-young-editor.html

More on Young's 2005 visit to Albany:
http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/young_kevin.html

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