Poetry News:

— At the New York Times Book Review, all the misogyny is fit to print —

— Poetry workshop: May’s shortlist and Gillian Clarke’s responses —

— Lambda Literary Awards Announce Winners —

— Oldest Profession —

— From Shakespeare to Snyder, nothing inspires a poet quite as much as another poet (or themselves). Send us your [...]

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Poetry News:

— In general, US poetry presents a disturbingly white face for a lot of nefarious reasons, but it strikes me that there may be an intriguing explanation for why so many white women writers take up the Gurlesque in particular —

— A Few Ways to Read a Book of Poems —

— scientists have taken [...]

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Poetry News:

— Taking stock of the wood —

— Wordplay features Philadelphia-based poet Ross Gay [links to MP3] —

— This week’s poem is the delicate and flirtatious 16th-century French “Villanelle”, along with a brand new translation —

— Jonathan Thirkield has been selected as the recipient of the 2008 Walt Whitman Award for his first book-length collection [...]

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Poetry News:

— An award-winning poet and physician describes how words help him understand and express human suffering —

— lovely —

— WordPlay 5/18/08 Coleman Barks [links to MP3] —

— In the second of a series of exchanges in which we are bringing poets together to discuss new books, Cate Marvin and Joshua Mehigan spar over books [...]

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Blitzkuchen
(Lightning Cake)
4 Tbsp Butter -
10 Tbsp Sugar - hahahaha
3 Eggs, beaten -
1 1/3 C Flour, sifted -
1 1/2 tsp Baking powder -
1/4 tsp Salt -
1/2 C Milk -
1 tsp Vanilla -
1/2 tsp Cinnamon –
1/4 tsp Nutmeg -
1/4 C Walnuts, chopped - (One small supermarket pack, and crush a bit more with a jar or [...]

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Poetry News:

— ‘Book of hours’ has rare female voice —

— Avant-garde cockney slammed for slang that doesn’t rhyme —

— Suggested blog topic: The Career Poet and How to Make Money & Influence People —

— Job: Associate Editor/Staff Writer - St. Louis Cardinals (St. Louis, MO) —

— Editor and translator Cor van den Heuvel is a [...]

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Poetry News:

— “I wanted to write a series of elegies,” she says. “I wanted the promise of consolation, but consolation never arrives.” —

— Excerpt: ‘Today: 101 Ghazals’ —

— Dock Ellis is trying to strike back at a tough foe and another article from the NY Post —

— Since we started this series of calls [...]

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Poetry News:

— Can you write your own animal verse? —

— Hay festival: The show starts here —

— She was a founding director of Lakewood Prep, a founding editor of Barrow Street poetry journal, and author of four books of poetry. —

— The view from Palestine is explored this week with a look at Samih al-Qasim’s [...]

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Poetry News:

— Blas Falconer’s collection of poems, A Question of Gravity and Light, is about nameless people, perennial outsiders who find themselves in situations they hadn’t planned upon —

— Professor denied tenure. Reason? Flarf. —

— Bangor publisher suing Amazon in anti-trust case —

— For the first time, anyone with access to the Internet can hear [...]

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Did you know that a toilet tank flapper can be used as a bathtub stopper? I did not, until my sister and I stayed at the Maplehurst Inn B&B in Knoxville, Tennessee, and were offered that hardware as a replacement stopper this morning. And due to an “overbooking” or a “mix-up” from Hotels.com we [...]

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Disputation of Jilly Dybka on the Power and Efficacy of Contemporary Poetry Publishing
Hi — an announcement
My first book of poetry, Trouble And Honey, is available for purchase at Lulu.com for a special recession-rate of $7.77. And if you live overseas, why not take advantage of the crappy fiat US dollar hahaha?
The book is also available [...]

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Poetry News:

— State names new poet laureate —

— Readers Not Wanted: Student Writers Fight to Keep Their Work Off the Web —

— New book by former NEA chairman gives vision for arts in America; Bill Ivey of Vanderbilt’s Curb Center is author of Arts, Inc. —

— Writer and poet Firas Saad was sentenced to four [...]

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Poetry News:

— If you didn’t browse the comments when I posted about M.F.A. programs last month, you really should: they veered quickly and entertainingly toward gang warfare, with the Crips arguing against such programs and the Bloods arguing for them —

— Mary Oliver’s ‘work is loving the world’ —

— Strip —

— A sheaf of post-April [...]

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Poetry News:

— How often have we tried to convey our feelings, only to find our mouth issuing words that we had never intended to speak? —

— Australian Mullahs Attack Literature Course on Women —

— Now celebrating its 30th anniversary, Bloodaxe has established itself as a fundamental force in British poetry —

— How to outsource the [...]

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