John Ashbery reads "Hard Times" at the Kelly Writers House on February 11, 2013 as part of the Fellows program.
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Funded by a grant from Paul Kelly, the Kelly Writers House Fellows program enables us to realize two unusual goals. We want to make it possible for the youngest writers and writer-critics to have sustained contact with authors of great accomplishment in an informal atmosphere. We also want to resist the time-honored distinction - more honored in practice than in theory - between working with eminent writers on the one hand and studying literature on the other.
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