Poetry Hut Blog
2007 September

Poetry News:

— How ballads created Finland, opera made Belgium, and fairy stories unified Germany —

— A Poet of the Mets Versifies of Gloom [link found here thank you] —

— …that is why Adrienne Rich’s poetry has enduring importance huzzah —

— Leading writers appraise Wendell Berry —

— Shams Skeleton Allegedly Found —

— Paris Hilton: poetry plagiarizer? [...]

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Well I was saddened to read the news about the passing of Shaky Jake Woods.
He was a bit “off” but a kind person and once when I was a musician, before a gig in Ann Arbor, my band jammed with him outside. Kind of. He didn’t think tuning a guitar was important. Nor having [...]

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Poetry News:

— Charles Simic Takes Your Questions on Poetry [link found here thank you] —

— In 1923, after falling in love with a blond, blue eyed sailor, Hart Crane wrote his most ambitious poem to date —

— Kay Ryan rises to the top despite her refusal to compromise —

— I sure do love poems by [...]

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Poetry News:

— Autobiography of the Cab Driver Who Picked Me Up At a Phoenix Hotel to Catch a Four A.M. Flight and Began to Speak in (Almost) Rhyming Couplets by Rebecca McClanahan –

— Seven Ingenious Rules —

— Poetry Prize Sets Off Resignations at Society —

— How often has some wonderful piece of verse, some rousing [...]

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Poetry News:

— We knew he was a genius all along [and more here]—

— Abu Dhabi TV crowns ‘Prince of Poets’ —

— his work draws parallels between the depiction of the war heroes in the Iliad and the Odyssey and the experiences of his patients —

— It was damned rot — rot of the worst sort [...]

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Please stand by
My ear is still messed up. Taking a break.
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Poetry News:

— Cate Marvin begins her exhilarating, fierce new book with a poem in that tradition of embracing the foul with the fair —

— Six different literary institutions organised Saturday a rally with the poets carrying placards bearing their poems demanding freedom in literary writing and to give voice to democracy —

— Ever After by [...]

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