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...Former students Kevin Young, now poetry editor at The New Yorker and poet Tracy K Smith remember his teachings with fondness and gratitude....
...I always had a sense of cynicism about it and that’s what eventually drove me to say, ‘I need to f**k off, I need to just step away from this.’ ” He says he is still cynical, but “more positive in my cynicism...
...Tracy K Smith, 46, professor of creative writing at Princeton University, was named United States Poet Laureate in June 2017. Her most recent book, Wade in the Water, was published this year....
...Tracy K Smith, America’s former poet laureate, wrote after her death of Morrison’s ability to capture the spirit of her fractured homeland. “Black life is the canvas for Ms Morrison’s body of work....
...Wade in the Water , by Tracy K Smith, Penguin, RRP£8.99/Graywolf, RRP$24 The US poet laureate spans a stunning range of form and subject in this deceptively dense volume....
...It has a sort of novelistic quality that makes it compelling and also important. My favourite book of the year so far is Weight in the Water by Tracy K Smith....
...Extract of a poem taken from the collection ‘Life on Mars’, ©2012 Tracy K Smith; Graywolf Press, $16, graywolfpress.org...
...I’m curious whether they can point to any peer reviewed economic research or indeed any statistical work that backs up their views....
...Matters are ultimately resolved (though also largely fomented in the first place) by Rupert Young as ex-husband C.K. Dexter Haven (the role taken in 2005 by Spacey)....
...Matu Mugo, meanwhile, made the point that in Kenya it was telecoms companies — one telecoms company in particular: SafariCom, a.k.a Vodafone — rather than banks which had helped to bring digital payments...
...“I’m amazed,” said Peter Renton, an independent blogger and investor in the so-called “peer-to-peer”, or marketplace lending, business....
...A fixed income portfolio manager said: “Regulators have been trying to crack down on these practices for some time. Honestly, I’m not sure how they will do it because this is not illegal....
...The $8.9bn valuation means a surge in value of the stakes held by investors including some high-profile Wall Street names that sit on the company’s board — such as Lawrence Summers and John Mack — plus a...
...This will be a chat about central bank policy that goes beyond the conventional — beyond, even, the unconventional. 13:30 – 14:30 – Hedging for Skynet a.k.a. the new Bletchly wannabe set Moderator: Izabella...
...Nevertheless, he also notes that when it comes to the Fed’s balance sheet, the introduction of interest on excess reserves (a.k.a a floor system) means the Fed can in theory continue to control rates without...
...When Lawrence McDonald traded junk bonds at Lehman Brothers, he was one of a dozen traders and more than 20 salespeople on the floor....
...Measure the subsidy and not the capital / From Prof Cornelius K Hurley...
...On a relative basis, the mezzanine tranches in U.K. transactions respond the most severely, with a jump from just over 5% in average tranche loss under baseline to about 11% in the 500 bps shift scenario...
...High-yield debt, a.k.a. junk, has been the darling of the investment world in both Europe and the US in recent months, as a way of picking up yield in a low interest rate world....
...The repo market would take a big hit for a start....
...I’m sure the platform position will win. I’m even more sure it will be declared the winner....
...And if you want a country-by-country breakdown of S&P’s housing expectations, here it is: Overall we anticipate that the U.K. housing market will drift sideways in the coming 18 months, with prices shedding...
...And the carry trade/currency weirdness continues: LONDON (Dow Jones)– U.K. bank Barclays Capital pulled yen prices off its Barx dealing system for a short period Wednesday, as the Japanese currency fizzed...
...In addition, its public sector uses a smaller share of national income than those of most ‘AAA’ rated countries–including its closest peers, the U.K., France, Germany, and Canada (all AAA/Stable/A-1+)–which...
...The six from the 2010-11 cycle were as disparate as could be: the great German poet Hans Magnus Enzensberger talked about what he had learnt from the world of young black New Yorker Tracy K Smith; the Palestinian...
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