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Muldoon recommends Michael Dickman and Kathleen Graber, among others.

Muldoon believes that a great poem can come out of nowhere.

We are tiny little organisms that, if we are lucky, says Muldoon, “might have half dozen obsessions on which we can draw.”

Repetition is just as important in politics as it is in poetry, Muldoon says.

“Why don’t you write some ordinary poems that the rest of us can understand,” someone wrote to Muldoon.

It’s at the heart of his poetry, and Muldoon tells us of the best metaphors he’s come up with of late.

Everything from Irish song to Yevgeny Evtushenko.

Muldoon talks about how meeting the great poet Seamus Heaney.

Spain? Portugal? Holland?

America has taken women’s soccer seriously for quite some time, Conrad says.

How do steroids feed into the American drive to win?

Conrad on young American virtuosos at home and abroad.

Perhaps his royal treatment will trickle down to MLS players, Conrad says.

Conrad proposes a European-style farming system.

The number of people who tune in for the World Cup indicates that there is a passion for the sport in the U.S. Major League Soccer just needs to tap […]

It’s all part of the game’s human element, Conrad says, even Zidane’s head-butt.

It all comes down to how the players learned to play the game.

Franz Beckenbauer heads the list.

Conrad is still learning the fine points of managing a team on the field.

Outsmarting Zidane.

Conrad had a Danish grandfather who showed him the ropes.

Neil Giuliano on celebrities and gay rights.

I look for the resurrection of the dead. A Jew hears about the three wishes and sayst to thegolden fish, “I want a Rolls-Royce, a house in Florida, fivemillion euros […]

As I drew nearer to the end of all desire..

The forgetting I notice most as I get older is really a form of memory: The undergrowth of things unknown to you young, that I have forgotten.

In the early winter dusk the broken city dark seeps from the tunnels.

Pinsky explains why people love cliché.

The lifers, Pinsky says, are the ones who write the best poetry.

When poetry is written in soap.

The multiplicity of memory.