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Poetry News:

— Wordplay this week: Ed Dorn [I can't find the podcast file though. More here.] —

— The battle of the literary endorsements —

— An infatuation killed by reality —

— Why all this is a recipe for another Futurist revolution —

— It’s not every town where you can see your poet laureate coming down the [...]

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Poetry News:

— awwww … congrats —

— Clark has become one of poetry’s most prolific and influential book designers —

— Poetic licence required… —

— Stanford celebrates Emily Dickinson’s legacy with three free events —

— its advice on fashion, bodies and morals gives rise, in Compton’s hands, to quirky but politically pointed verse —

— What’s in [...]

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Poetry News:

— Online Bronx magazine taking shape —

— A 17-year-old boy who had once worked as a kitchen aide at Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf campus recognized the remote farmhouse’s potential for parties —

— T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound were the “Odd Couple” of 20th-century poetry —

— Tuesday marks the 163rd anniversary of the publication [...]

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Poetry News:

— Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill’s The Fifty Minute Mermaid asks us to examine the very nature of our present-day livesr —

— Like music, poetry is not just about meaning —

— His goal with the book is to help people understand the lives that Native Americans live in today’s society and how much racism and stereotypes [...]

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Poetry News:

— Robert Burns poems podcast —

— Winter Night by Po Chu-I, translated by David Hinton —

— George Oppen, who wrote some of the most austerely beautiful poems of the twentieth century, is known best for not writing at all —

— A cry of “Holy cow!” went up when an envelope was opened recently at [...]

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Poetry News:

— Tempe’s Arizona State University to Host Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference —

— What exactly are poems? And what are they good for? —

— Callous peddler ’steals’ from sick —

— Eureka! How the Brain has ‘Aha’ Moments —

— We talked to our first poet laureate about how he got the job, the sound [...]

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Poetry News:

— Burmese poet held for insulting poem —

— One of the best Burns Nights I ever went to, the host left books of Burns poems round the table and just waited for people to relax [and Win a Year's Supply of Haggis on Burns Night at Scot Bingo yum] —

— People Of the Chapbook [...]

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Poetry News:

— Her first poetry collection was 10 years in the making, part of which she spent working on her master’s of fine arts in English at Western Michigan University —

— But what people may not know is that Scott-Heron played an instrumental role in getting an official national holiday to honor Martin Luther King, [...]

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re my post from a few days ago. There are other discussions about this over here and over here and over here and over here
I’m involved with the WOMPO listserv (which I recommend checking out), and frankly I’ve been buying mostly poetry by women for some reason for a while now. It hasn’t been a [...]

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Poetry News:

— rarely has a work of literature ignited or inspired a new sporting event —

— he reviewed four of the original Frost notebooks housed in Boston University’s archives and found “roughly one thousand” errors in Mr. Faggen’s work —

— ‘Poe Toaster’ avoids being spotted at Edgar Allan Poe’s grave —

— Confrontation, the award-winning literary [...]

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Poetry News:

— Wonder Woman’s creator, Dr William Moulton Marston, a Harvard-educated psychologist, might have appreciated this new self-awareness of an ambivalent superhero —

— Among the writers he published are Ed Dorn, Kenneth Irby, Alice Notley, Paul Metcalf, Joanne Kyger and Robin Blaser. —

— Poetess murder accused seeks jail perks —

— Quirky Poetry Collection a Salute [...]

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Poetry News:

— “The Poem of a Life,” Mark Scroggins’s terrific new biography, never strays far from Zukofsky the poet. —

— Over the past 100 years Milton’s standing has declined more steeply than that of any other great English poet —

— City officials see Cornish as a poet of the people, someone who will reach across [...]

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Poetry News:

— When passion for another person emboldens you to feel a sense of possession, you are already on the way to becoming a stalker —

— The Chinese community believes it is good to welcome the new year with auspicious verses that rhyme —

— Does the world needs book prizes? —

— Iraqi poet who joined [...]

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