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Updates from William Pitman

July 20, 2021 English

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Recent works and updates.

Senior lecturer William Pittman was recently interviewed by Maryland's Poet Laureate, Grace Cavalieri, on her long-running show, sponsored by the Library of Congress through National Public Radio, called "The Poet and the Poem." The interview series includes over 40 years of interviewing poets and is available to all public radio stations. Pittman participated in the interview under his pen-name Y. S. Fing as the first interviewee in the Youtube version of the series. “The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress” is a series of one-hour shows featuring the country’s top poets, who discuss and read their poems and are interviewed by Cavalieri, who records the series at the Library.

As Y.S. Fing, Pittman currently has a monthly column, at the Washington Independent Review of Books, called Finglish