Saturday’s Full Moon Offers Strange Illusion

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Poetry News:

— Shoot the Messenger: Dana Goodyear, David Orr, and the Stewards of Poetry —

— Mercer Simpson felt a close affinity with Wales and the literary affairs of the country where he lived for more than 50 years —

— Poet, o poet, who art thou? —

— She was a leader in the concrete poetry movement [...]

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Poetry News:

— Blogs versus Print: is there a prejudice? [and more, kinda, about the legitimacy of blogging.] —

— Elizabeth Bishop, in her early 20s, doing cart-wheels across the field at the farm —

— English Professor Sets Poetry Wheels in Motion for Luzerne County Residents —

— Poet Cathal O’Searcaigh wins €20,000 literary prize —

— Anna Akhmatova’s [...]

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Poetry News:

— Ms. Malaika was one of a small group of Iraqi poets who broke away from classical Arab poetry, with its rigid metric and rhyme schemes —

— …the other is a rare first-edition copy of Phillis Wheatley’s “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral” that dates to 1773 —

— Poet Mary Ellen Solt, a [...]

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Poetry News:

— Website prods poets to seek their 15 minutes of creativity —

— Maria Rundell taught her readers how to cook a goose, brew beer, make ink and cure baldness —

— Novelist, playwright, and poet H. Gregor Lafferty, 41, announced Monday his plan to use water as a metaphor —

— Asahi Haikuist Network —

— Consider [...]

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Poetry News:

— Let’s do it, let’s fall in luff [link via Avoiding the Muse thank you] —

— Here’s a tortoise shell that reminds the poet of a soldier’s helmet and which leads me to a pet hate: computer games —

— A two-century jinx on a potential literary goldmine held true today —

— Galway Kinnell has [...]

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I have a website, www.thewordvine.com, that I hope to launch in September. The Word Vine is going to be a (free) site where DIY publishers, micropresses and the like can sign up and sell their stuff, commiserate, etc. Right now it is just a placeholder website.
I’m still working on it, but each store can sell [...]

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Poetry News:

— Through his prodigious output and a hugely influential blog that has attracted more than a million hits, Silliman has become a kind of elder statesman in the world of innovative literature —

— Poet, Snubbed, Still Every Inch a Laureate —

— Recent poetry collections highlight local, regional authors —

— Crain says if you know [...]

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Poetry News:

— Sometimes, he keeps his musing, vernacular voice so moderate in tone that the writing reminds me of a baseball term for certain pitchers, “sneaky fast” —

— Conjugated Visits by Diane Kirsten Martin —

— Truro hosts exhibit on poet Elizabeth Bishop —

— best known for his poem “Over the Hill to the Poor House” [...]

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Poetry News:

— Nazek Al Malaika, famous as the first to write Arabic poetry in free verse rather than classical rhyme —

— Seattle schools say girls tennis coach wasn’t fired —

— Futurism did the same, and the fallout from its image-derived concrete poetry on these shores led to Vorticism, which in turn … —

— What does [...]

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No news tomorrow but please enjoy this preview of the forthcoming Huang Xiang exhibit at the downtown Nashville public library. [more about the exhibit]
The photos are courtesy of Paul and Jill, who I sort of know through local Shambhala training (though the circumstances with my health & situation with my parents has made it hard [...]

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Poetry News:

— The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance is pleased to announce the winners of the 2007 SIBA Book Award Yay! Congrats Susan! —

— the finest literary magazine on the continent —

— Scintillate, scintillate, globule vivivic / —

— Ex-Poet Laureate on Guantanamo Poetry —

— poems … were bounced off the moon as radio signals [...]

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Poetry News:

— by the time the poetry awards were announced, three hours into the event, the theater was half empty —

— A poem for truckers and bacon-lovers everywhere —

— Three held over poem murder case —

— I think that Mr. Barr should take a lesson from Peter Gelb, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera in [...]

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Poetry News:

— How much should a poet be paid per line? —

— Fifty years ago, I suspect that along with Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, and Sandy Koufax, most Americans could have named, at the very least, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg … —

— Rutgers-Newark Offers New MFA Program In Creative Writing —

— “Physicists talk in metaphor [...]

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