Poetry Hut Blog
2007 March

Poetry News:

“Whan that Aprill” Weekend —

The nation’s largest dry mill ethanol producer changed its name from Broin to Poet™ —

Berry professor wins $10,000 prize for manuscript —

Ian McMillan on US presidential candidate Barack Obama’s poetry —

Nicholas Blincoe reports on Abu Dhabi’s TV hit Millions’ Poet —

Not Much Fun for Penguin [...]

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Poetry News:

Lannan Podcasts - B.H Fairchild with R.S. Gwynn [link goes to a web page not a sound file] —

Lannan Podcasts - Charles Simic with David Lehman [link goes to a web page not a sound file] —

Sasha Dugdale assesses the poets who made the shortlist of her exercise on dramatic poetry — [...]

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Poetry News:

In what circumstances do readers of a first-person poem assume it is drawn from “what really happened”? —

Stephen Colbert has trademarked the phrase “librarians are hiding something” —

The poetry of bodily functions —

Medgar Evers & authors celebrate Marley, the poet —

A Little Poem To Get Us Set For Some [...]

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Poetry News:

the true credit for the world’s first science fiction novel should go to Percy Bysshe Shelley —

Memorising poetry is a marvellous mental exercise to keep our minds alive and working —

It’s clear that Berryman is where Troy Jollimore started as a poet —

I want them all to just live literature, love [...]

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Poetry News:

Poetry and Peeps in Southern Village —

Poetry Month: New verse from Carl Dennis —

Unpopular for centuries, poetry continues to survive around the world and in Columbus —

Burns love life movie revived by actor’s success as a Spartan —

Nova Scotia lost a cultural hero Tuesday with the passing of celebrated Mi”™kmaq [...]

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Poetry News:

Austen ‘too ugly’ for book cover —

In art, as in life, we desire something between the familiar and the unfamiliar —

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make a poet —

few writers who died so young have covered so much aesthetic ground —

from literary hoax to musical journey —

Writing [...]

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Poetry News:

Authors campaign to save Britain’s only gay bookshop —

Longfellow the patriot trumped Longfellow the poet —

celebrate National Poetry Month —

Tagore’s Poem Distorted in Textbooks —

In the second of his reports on Middle East poetry, Jeffrey Brown discusses poetry’s role in Arab society with three leading Palestinian poets —

tofuhaiku.com/ — [...]

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I have a haiku online at the Mainichi Daily News in Tokyo. (I didn’t even know. I just surfed there on my periodic haiku meanderings.) Part of my quest to create a poem with the fewest words (7 this time) … speaking of which …
{edit oops it’s 6}
Poetry News:

Princeton H.S. official resigns over [...]

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Poetry News:

PBS’ NewsHour spotlighted the poetry of the Middle East … with reflections on Israeli poets —

Poet Loses Free-Speech Case —

Fence journal moves to Writers Institute —

Modernising the house that TS Eliot built —

The Poem as Comic Strip #2 —

From West Hell to East Jesus with Kevin Young — [...]

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Poetry News:

School cancels Black History Month program saying too graphic —

What if you woke up one morning and lost faith in the power of words to describe your world? —

Strident songs of the new India —

Some fresh faces cited for mag awards —

Asahi Haikuist Network —

Opening the new literary journal [...]

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Poetry News:

Derek Walcott: A Life in Poetry —

Suit over Ruth Lilly trusts ends —

Lost voices of Victorian working class uncovered in political protest poems —

The bookseller’s story, ended too soon —

I would like to encourage readers to try writing and submitting a dramatic poem —

Sylvia’s poetry shines on —

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Poetry News:

Puerto Rican Poet Gets Her Own NYC Street —

Poet Receives $50,000 Prize —

Members of an outfit called the Poetry Caravan take turns reading to residents at nursing homes, women‘ shelters and clinics for drug abuse —

On the face of it, this poem is utterly barking —

Is there a link between [...]

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P&G Pet Care Announces Voluntary Participation in Menu Foods’ Nationwide U.S. and Canadian Recall of Specific Canned and Small Foil Pouch ‘Wet’ Cat and Dog Foods
DAYTON, Ohio, March 16, 2007 /PRNewswire/ — In response to the recent Menu Foods, Inc. nationwide recall of wet pet foods, P&G Pet Care has announced a voluntary recall in [...]

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For some reason, I’m not enjoying this anymore. Maybe when baseball season starts that will shake me up. Thanks for visiting, though.

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