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COVER STORY
Art in the wake of terror
Kurt Andersen talks with two New York artists, poet Marie Ponsot and
composer John Corigliano, about what music and poetry and other art have told us
before about suffering and righteousness and comfort, and what they
might tell us this time.
 Marie
Ponsot reads her poetry as well as poems by Shakespeare and W.H. Auden,
and Corigliano talks about his First Symphony, which is dedicated to those
who have died of AIDS, and music by Copland and Barber.
 Go
to WH Auden's poem September 1, 1939
Go
to Samuel Barber's "Knoxville: Summer of 1915"
Go
to a Marion Williams website
Go
to Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man
Go
to Marge Piercy's poem To Be of Use
SPECIAL GUESTS
 Marie
Ponsot
is a poet, teacher and a native New Yorker. Her recent
collection, The Bird Catcher, won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Ponsot's first book of poems, True Minds, was published in 1957.
Go
to a NY Times profile of Marie Ponsot
Go
to Poems from The Bird Catcher
 John Corigliano
is also a native New Yorker, and a composer who writes
for orchestra and opera, as well as films including The Red Violin and
Altered States. Corigliano won the Pulitzer Prize this year for his Second
Symphony. His First Symphony was a memorial to the lives lost to AIDS.
Go
to his current bio
Go
to his publisher's site
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