Dejan Stojanovic - Poet

SpiritLighthouse in the deepIs it yoursOr is the shining scentComing to meIn an invisible orbitRecognized only in reverie?Is it your spirit on a voyageComing to meIn endless darknessTo shine upon my pathAnd my own spirit enlightensDejan Stojanovic, Chicago, 1991Tags: Dejan Stojanovic Light House ducation literature poems poetry poetsRead Full Story

Saul Bellow and Dejan Stojanovic, Chicago, 1992This interview was conducted at the University of Chicago in the spring of 1992 and published in January 1993, in the Serbian magazine Views. Mr. Bellow expressed a desire to receive a copy of the interview, but one was never sent to him, because for technical reasons—translation, publication etc. the process took much more time than expected and the author of the interview felt uneasy sending it after such a long delay. In retrospect, not only...Read Full Story

Steve Tesich and Dejan Stojanovic, Chicago, 1991A Few Moments with Steve TesichSteve Tesich (1942-1996) was a Serbian-American Oscar-winning screenwriter, playwright and novelist. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1979 for Breaking Away. For the same movie, Tesich won: The National Society of Film Critics Award, Best Screenplay; New York Film Critics Circle Award, Best Screenplay; Writers Guild of America Award, Best-Written Comedy Written Directly for the Screen...Read Full Story

Charles Simic, Photograph: Richard Drew/APCharles Simic (1938) is one of the most respected and beloved contemporary American poets. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for his book The World Doesn’t End: Prose Poems, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the Wallace Stevens Award, among many other honors. He was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2007. He has published more than 60 books.Stojanovic: You arrived in America as a child. How did your...Read Full Story

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