• — “The poetry of air bombing requires a particular imaginative sympathy absent from other war poetry, and it must play between telling and deferring the tale: between the poet who survived and the others who died that night,” he writes. —
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• — Berlin ‘bombed’ with poetry —
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• — The community’s bid to spread a love for poetry worked so well that the Friends of the Arts group is extending the program. —
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• — The season’s here for poets and romantics —
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• — Sherman Alexie’s Ode to Mix Tapes —
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• — A Saudi woman received a death threat last week after she appeared on “Poet of Millions,” Abu Dhabi’s version of the game show “American Idol” — which features aspiring poets instead of singers — and recited a poem attacking clerics for “terrorizing people and preying on everyone seeking peace.” —
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• — For shits and giggles, let’s pretend that American Poetry Review, Paris Review and Kenyon Review announced they were going online because a print journal was too costly to produce. Would those journals suddenly become second-tier? —
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• — Those Oulipo pranksters seem so charmingly crazy to American writers. —
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• — The Music of Borges —
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• — Call for Vispo: MaOAS Visual Poetry Exhibition 2010 (MaOAS VPEx 2010) —
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• — Poem: The Legacy of Bud Selig —
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• — Of Grape Gum and Glass Pens: Practicing Gratitude: Guest post by Aimee Nezhukumatathil —
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• — The VPR Poem of the Week is Floyd Skloot’s “Labor Day Party,” which appeared in the Spring/Summer 2002 issue (Volume III, Number 2) of Valparaiso Poetry Review. —
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• — Merle Haggard Reflects On His Outlaw Country Past —
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• — The award-winning literary journal The Virginia Quarterly Review has canceled its winter issue and closed its offices in the aftermath of the suicide last month of its managing editor and a subsequent investigation by the University of Virginia, which operates the journal. —
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• — Campaign to save last home of poet WH Davies —
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Last week (Thurs.) was the 7th anniversary of poetryhut.com and so Poetry Hut Blog.

Another tidbit: I had blogged here about issues I was having with the Ehlers Danlos National Foundation. I received an email today, which was sent to all members, announcing that the EDNF offices in Los Angeles are closing, there is a new Executive Director, the CEO has stepped down, and they have partnered with a company that does non-profit management to decrease the fixed operating costs of the organization by 30%. The new offices will be opening soon, in VA.

I hope this goes well for everyone involved.

• — Portland poet Michael Dickman won the James Laughlin Award, given for the most outstanding second book of poetry, for “Flies,” which Copper Canyon Press will publish in May of next year. —
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• — Poem of the week: Pier by Vona Groarke, Filled with vitality and physical exuberance, this week’s bank holiday choice is that rare thing: a happy poem —
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• — Anti-bullfighting protester targets the Irish poet Seamus Heaney. —
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• — Insulated Babies Grow Faster —
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• — Patricia Gomes, creator of the Octologue, an 8-line syllabic form of poetry, was awarded third place —
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• — Civic group targets gay artist’s ‘Haiku’ project —
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• — We speak with Irish novelist Edna O’Brien about Lord Byron in love, in this rebroadcast segment. —
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• — So, I have questions for all of you who read this blog: How we can get back to the pleasure of the art rather than the jockeying for position, awards and writing personal attacks masquerading as “literary criticism?” —
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• — Tupac Shakur Movie Adds Oscar-Nominated Writers —
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• — Literary News Worth Sharing —
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• — The painter and poet David Jones served on the Western Front and was highly rated by both T S Eliot and W H Auden. Yet he remains little known, his style fitting in with neither our idea of First World War artists nor anti-war verse of today. —
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• — Fraser Sutherland transforms German philosophy into Canadian verse —
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• — Poetry Is a Dumb-Ass Spider by Lynda Barry —
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• — For all those who, on receipt of yet another bloodless rejection email from the editor of a poetry mag…. —
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