Poetry News:

— A literary magazine editor in high school, Cerf also plans a book on poetry he has written —

— Love to Write? Keep It to Yourself —

— Seattle poet and publishers to receive 2007 American Book Awards —

— Six foot long poem revealed —

— Nevermore: The mystery surrounding the death of Edgar Allan Poe [...]

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Poetry News:

— Paris Poetess Links Geometry and Verse in Bizarre Fashion —

— Robert Shields, Wordy Diarist, Dies at 89 —

— UW Professor Uses Bush’s, bin Laden’s Words to Make Poetry —

— Report: The Poets Forum on Aesthetic Diversity —

— Jon Anderson, a celebrated lyric poet and longtime professor of English at the University of Arizona, [...]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Twelfth Conference on Baseball in Literature and Culture
Friday, March 28, 2008
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN
Keynote Address: Dr. Peter Carino, Indiana State University
Luncheon Speaker: Orestes Destrade, ESPN Baseball Tonight commentator
and former MLB and Japanese League player
The Twelfth Conference on Baseball in Literature and Culture, is
soliciting 1-2 page proposals for presentations to be given at [...]

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Poetry News:

— Edwin Arlington Robinson Defines Poetry; A Language, Says Well-Known Poet, That Tells Us Through More or Less Emotional Reaction Something Which Cannot Be Said —

— The millennia-long story of the wilful or careless destruction of books—this account takes in both possibilities—begins centuries before the birth of Christ —

— Len Roberts: A memorial reading [...]

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Poetry News:

— Moving Pictures Have Commercialized Writers; Says Charles Hanson Towne, Poet and Editor, Who No Longer Finds Magazine Editing an Adventure, as It Was Years Ago —

— Reason lives in a haunted house —

— Although her beloved team is not in this year’s World Series, she shares a poem about being at the event [...]

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More birthday. Happy Birthday:

— The University of Oxford and Indiana University are pleased to announce a joint interdisciplinary conference commemorating Sylvia Plath’s 75th birthday —

— Oxford Marks 75 Years Of Sylvia Plath —

— A Kind of Heroism —

— One for Life, One for Death —

— Sylvia Plath’s Tupperware years —

Firesong
by: Sylvia Plath
Born green we were
to [...]

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Poetry News:

— There’s this idea he was a stern, reclusive, hard man, but, in fact, he was great company, he loved gossip and he’s not the Ted Hughes that people have in their imaginations at all —

— Kerouac, baseball and Denver —

— Poet Thomas Sayers Ellis will read from his work at 8 p.m. Thursday, [...]

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Poetry News:

— Blog or self-published (logroll) “reviews” are not reliable sources [link found here] —

— a unique film festival was held where poetry was the focus of the cinematic medium —

— Exploring Gertrude Stein’s nooks and crannies —

— Synchronously with the growing decline of the novel we are witnessing the beginning of a new golden [...]

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Poetry News:

— Paul Guest, a poet who teaches at West Georgia, will be in New York Wednesday to accept the prestigious $50,000 Whiting Prize and Whiting Award Winners Announced — [congrats]

— Indian politician and wife jailed for murder plot against Hindu poetess —

— Solitary Woman in a Glass House: Visual Translations [...]

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Poetry News:

— Psychologists Nathan DeWall of the University of Kentucky and Roy Baumeister of Florida State University ran three experiments to study existential dread in the laboratory —

— Three Reasons Why We Don’t Read Poetry —

— I guess this collection is about the shadowy presences and outlaw characters who haunt the margins of American, particularly [...]

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Poetry News:

— In a sequence about T.S. Eliot in California with his love interest Emily Hale, the couple visits the In-N-Out hamburger chain —

— At the point where one stage of our lives draws to a close and we are about to enter the next stage, there is always room for the hope of great [...]

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Poetry News:

— The early letters of the future poet laureate reveal many of his lifelong obsessions, from furry animals to the occult, mostly in a financially anxious form —

— More to the point, they seem to fill a gap left increasingly by magazines, which rarely publish this type of material anymore —

— That Canadians would [...]

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At 1:20pm, 40 years ago today, I was born. Just being here at all is pretty miraculous — I was supposed to arrive in late January. (I weighed 34 ounces when I was born. In 1967. And I’m alive.) I spent about 3 months in an incubator, which I’m sure fcked me up on [...]

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Poetry News:

— Charles Nicholl pieces together the untold story of a Jacobean court case and asks what it reveals about the ordinary life of ‘a certain Mr Shakespeare’ —

— Free Verse Hampers Poets and Is Undemocratic; Josephine Preston Peabody Says That, Nevertheless, the War Is Making Poetry Less Exclusive and the Imagiste Cult Will Be [...]

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