I had to modify my RSS feed to show only a post’s snippet, sorry. This blog is getting splogged and scraped like mad lately and I find that very irritating.
Poetry News:

— Call for poets! —

— Using verse as a kind of verbal massage for your emotions cheapens it terribly. And it won’t do you much [...]

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Poetry News:

— We’ve published some poetry, even though we both know you may as well be setting fire to hundred-dollar bills —

— Bradfield delivers her bruised truths through a quiet honesty that stands in ardent defense of mainstream normative expectations —

— Gov. Pawlenty names Robert Bly Minnesota’s first official poet laureate —

— So you’d look [...]

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Poetry News:

— Does poetry have any real agency in the world? It might not seem so, but poets have made some stirring arguments that it does, —

— Canadians are playing key role in `Books 2.0′ —

— Saying he has a mandate to make poetry more accessible, P.E.I.’s poet laureate has launched a website —

— [...]

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Poetry News:

— New Pages’ Lit Mag Reviews are Fresh —

— Loss of poet Salinas is loss to literature —

— Nick Drake’s From the Word Go meditates upon a single word —

— Robert Frost, Unplugged, Praised Rich Capitalist Fools, AP Says —

— The polls are open in the annual balloting for the Diagram Prize, honoring [...]

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Tennessee State University Cultural Affairs Committee and Department of Languages, Literature, and Philosophy Present
The Ringing Ear National Book Tour
An evening of poetry showcasing readings from contributing authors
Earl S. Braggs
Stephanie Pruitt
Frank X. Walker
Treasure Williams
Thursday, February 28, 7 pm
Tennessee State University, Performing Arts Center
The event is free and open to the public
SPECIAL THANKS TO
Cave Canem Foundation
AND
Lovenoise
[email [...]

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Poetry News:

— Some of his latest readings include the collected works of American poet Robert Creeley and poet Lyn Hejinian’s book “My Life.” —

— American Ghazals —

— Hickory poet Scott Owens will have his third chapbook of poems published online in April by the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature —

— A copy of a [...]

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If you link to Poetry Hut Blog & I don’t have a link back to you let me know & I will add your site to the blogroll if it is reasonably up-to-date.
Go visit some interesting people you haven’t met yet:

Nashville

Category Five
chez bez
Davis-Kidd Books
Emmylou Harris
Just Another Pretty …
Kingston Springs
Kingston Springs Fire Department
KingstonSprings.org
Metroblogging Nashville
Music City Bloggers
Nashville [...]

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Poetry News:

— Who can explain why the practice of poetry has become the object of so much satire and snide dismissal? [link found here thanks] —

— The Poem as Comic Strip #6 —

— For this, my farewell “Poet’s Choice” column, here are two poems related by a form: the sonnet —

— He is the leading [...]

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Poetry News:

— Sina Queryas has a life that’s been much cooler than yours —

— Pity the poetry collection. That thin volume of poems, so easily lost on a crowded shelf —

— Sarah Churchwell is frustrated by the limp portrayal of a hotheaded, randy Latin poet in Helen Dunmore’s Counting the Stars
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— Anyway, he said: [...]

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Poetry News:

— The trochaic trend in presidential first names probably doesn’t put Obama at much of a disadvantage —

— Zionsville resident publishes Tipton Poetry Journal; publication gaining traction in poetry circles —

— Prof’s poem wins award —

— Detained Burmese poet allowed meeting with wife —

— The University of Arkansas Press has established a new poetry [...]

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Poetry News:

— Written in English, the collection gathers 25 Latino poets from across the country and gives each a hefty eight to 10 pages to showcase their work —

— Houses at Night: An interview with John Ashbery —

— Might not be safe for work nor good taste …but I am easily amused —

— Ó Searcaigh [...]

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Poetry News:

— With passion, precise imagery, astute description, the well-traveled poet covers a lot of ground —

— Some say that if we make a space for the person we wish for, then that spot may be suitably filled —

— As T. S. Eliot once remarked, we cannot say where technique begins or where it ends [...]

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Poetry News:

— The Paranoiac and the Paris Review —

— The irony of depression is that the pervasive sadness that pierces the heart connects the haikuist to the everyday world of necessity —

— this remarkable, eccentric, and impressionistic family history by our province’s former Poet Laureate —

— He is recurrently snippy about poetry, because poets, indifferent [...]

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Poetry News:

— writers in their early careers today face a peculiar and sometimes unenviable set of circumstances —

— poems take on lives - people shouldn’t hold on to them, they should send them out so it has a chance to get a life —

— Each poem presents the dying thoughts of a different character —

— [...]

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