Poetry News:

— Legendary songstress Joni Mitchell returns with new music, art, ballet —

— For Yankees, Squirrel‘ Visit May Be Omen (a Bad One) —

— An innovative programme at a pioneering prison helps long-stayers to write - and perform - their own poems —

— Members of the artists’ collective “Voina” set the table for a funeral [...]

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Poetry News:

— Ray Kurzweil’s Cybernetic Poet —

— Hilly Kristal, a Rock Midwife, Is Dead at 75 —

— Southeast Missouri State University’s manuscript by prize-winning poet William Carlos Williams is no longer unpublished —

— Why can”™t more writers be smart enough to be beautiful, handsome, or at least cute —

— he did it for poetry, and [...]

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Poetry News:

— The MacDowell Colony has provided a creative workspace for artists for 100 years —

— The poet is the longtime editor of the Pitt Poetry Series of the University of Pittsburgh Press —

— For believers in marriage, this poem is for you and should be recited by the best man (or woman) at a [...]

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Poetry News:

— Robert and Jean Hollander have just completed a beautiful translation of the astonishing fourteenth-century poem —

— PBS transforms downtown New Bedford into Walt Whitman’s America —

— The Poets.org Poetcast: Charles Simic goes to the planetarium [links to MP3] —

— Baseball has long been the sport with the strongest literary heritage —

— ** Enter [...]

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Poetry News:

— MtvU, the subsidiary of MTV Networks that is broadcast only on college campuses, will announce today that it has selected its first poet laureate —

— a poem that considers explicitly the relation between old ways and new generations —

— Meet the many famous poets of modern America —

— The area is best known, [...]

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That’s a lot of poetry news. And kind of pathetic hahahahaha.
Genuine thanks for visiting, though.

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Poetry News:

— The first of Thom Gunn’s poems to appear in the TLS was “Jesus and His Mother” —

— Poet Takes Extra 5 Minutes To Vague Up Poem —

— Joy Harjo Reflects on the ‘Spirit of Poetry’ —

— Celebrating the life of Max Roach —

— Bard’s hip flask fetches £7,200 —

— What‘ next for Nick [...]

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Poetry News:

— Poet and short story writer Grace Paley, a literary eminence and old-fashioned rebel who described herself as a “combative pacifist,” has died (and NYT) —

— Fatwa offers unlimited money to kill Taslima —

— Remembering Liam Rector —

— Out of this has come a small industry in creative writing courses —

— We Need Models [...]

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Poetry News:

— We old white geezers never heard of him until last month when his suit against the governor of New Jersey reached the U.S. Supreme Court. —

— Trial Run for LongPen in Bookstores —

— …villanelles aren’t standard fare on the wings of most category B prisons —

— 2007 National Book Festival —

— Poetry-only shop [...]

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Poetry News:

— Writing tops poll of ideal jobs —

— Prolific poet was a gracious critic —

— Mary Jo Salter and Brad Leithauser, a couple with individual success, will write the next chapter of Hopkins’ Writing Seminars —

— Conversation With a Poet Laureate —

— Rare Anne Spencer collection headed to UVa —

— Renowned poet and Tennessee [...]

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Poetry News:

— Fred Chappell reading on the Wordplay program [links to MP3] —

— Prisons have always been surprisingly fruitful places for the production of poetry —

— The avant-garde wish and struggle to stay young — which means not to change — involves the fear of growing old and becoming traditional —

— Professors draft guidelines for [...]

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Poetry News:

— A parting of the ways in poetry —

— On March 2, 1952, Guest was named Michigan’s first poet laureate —

— Waldman is pleased that Walter Salles will direct the movie version —

— Millay was a national celebrity, and her readings would outdraw Robert Frost‘ —

— The Wounded Angel, 1903, by Amanda Auchter (congrats [...]

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Poetry News:

— Economy in writing can put garrulous narration or evasive speechifying to shame (congrats c. dale)—

— The American College of Physicians, the nation’s largest medical specialty organization, has published a compilation of stories, essays, and poems by doctors and their patients —

— America’s newest, and foreign-born, poet laureate has traveled a long way —

— [...]

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Poetry News:

— Liam Rector, 57, a Poet and Educator, Dies —

— Germaine Greer on Shakespeare’s wife and why she could have inspired the bard’s sonnets —

— Today’s poem is Praying to the Patron Saint of Saved Marriages by Kelli Russell Agodon congrats Kelli —

— Questions and Answers from the American Poetry Association on Poetic Orientation [...]

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