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Robert Kramer

Robert Kramer, born in New York City, is a widely published scholar, critic, playwright, poet, and translator of European literature. He has received six awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has been a Fulbright Scholar for a year of research in Munich, Germany, and a Swiss Government Scholar for a year in Bern, Switzerland. He has been a guest professor at various colleges, such as the University of Connecticut, Syracuse University, and Haverford College, and has lectured at such institutions as the Smithsonian, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Art Therapist Association. He has given readings of his poetry and translations on radio and television on both coasts, and at such colleges as New York University, The University of California, and Harvard University.

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The Concert and other poems

Robert Kramer

The Concert You recall that certain moment during the concert at the lakeside spa where Kafka once had stayed, in the mountains north of Prague, when--after the voluptuous melancholy of a sentimental Viennese waltz-- ...
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Patrick O'Neil Sixty
Sixty
Robert Kramer
There is nothing easy about turning sixty. The days whip by in a whirlwind, kids look younger, and you can’t understand what they’re even talking about. Cops, bosses, and docto...
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Oakland
Robert Kramer
Ocean fog thick in the avenue night white Christmas lights in October Shamrock Arms Bar glowing green & red through clear quartz-glass block front the Dead Sailor Girls...
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Norman Douglas at Bowery Poetry Club
Poetry Month Release Reading at Bowery Poetry Club, 5-17-15
Robert Kramer
To celebrate the release of Sensitive Skin #12, the Poetry Month special, we had a reading at the Bowery Poetry Club in NYC. About half of the published poets were able to make it....
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Venice is a Fish by Theresa Wong
Venice Is a Fish
Robert Kramer
Theresa Wong's Venice Is a Fish,the new release from Sensitive Skin MusicN, now available on Amazon and iTunes and available here for free listening. Theresa Wong's Venice Is A ...
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Billy's Topless Carl Watson
Meme Drift
Robert Kramer
West Midtown, when empty, could seem like an ancient old growth forest formed of concrete, granite, iron and glass. And like such a forest it had a dual nature— peaceful yet simu...
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