SELECTED ESSAYS

The Sing-Song Passion of Galway Kinnell
Beatrice, April 6, 2014
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Rivers of Readers in Serbia
Poets & Writers, March/April 2013
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My Friend Evelyn Einstein
Guenica Magazine, October 2013
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Children Of A Lesser God
Discover Magazine, March 2008
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Syria’s Teenage Prisoner of Conscience
A-Jazeera.com, April 15, 2011
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The Dignity of Lentil Soup
PEN American Center, May 21, 2013
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Poetry, PEN and Flora Brovina
PEN American Center, March 2008
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For Rosamund Lehmann’s 107th Birthday
RedRoom.com, May, 2009
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On Broken Colors
Original Essay for Powell’s Books, August 20, 2008
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A Genius Obscured by a Great Man
The Los Angeles Times, Nov 14, 1999
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