I’ll be back when I’m sufficiently fortified.
In the meantime, here are some jazzes.

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Tags: Blossom Dearie, Bobby Troupe, cool jazz, Gerry Mulligan, jazz, Julie London, Paul Desmond, Stan Getz

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I’ve enjoyed it. Maybe I’ll be back in a few months.
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Poetry News:

— Nancy Galbraith; Led Center For Poetry —

— Reversing the Tide: Professor Gives Due
 to Self-Taught Poets —

— Journals that take summer submissions (3 recent blog posts) —

— Reb Livingston is guest blogging at The Best American Poetry (where I found the link below) —

— 68 new reviews of poetry books. Edited by Eileen [...]

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link (I can’t do that btw, my skin involvement is mild.)
I guess when that program aired, people were p.o.’d at it, so ABC put a transcript of the interview with like one of the only scientists who is studying EDS. I am taking part in the NIH study mentioned - I had blood drawn for [...]

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Poetry News:

— The actress has been lambasted as old and out of touch for her controversial views on modern verse —

— A slap to poetry in Indiana? ow —

— Hoftsra researchers dig into times of slave poet —

— Poet Kay Ryan On Words, Writing —

— This week’s poem is by the greatest poet of all [...]

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Poetry News:

— Why do his poems so often feature husbands who kill or resent their wives? —

— On The Gurlesque Part 3 —

— Poet keeps win close to chest —

— USC Pigskin Poets Get Kids Reading —

— Time, reconfigured by poetry, allows connection —

— Library of Congress Organizes Eighth Annual National Book Festival Hosted by [...]

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ABOUT
Baltimore Is Reads is an Outdoor Poetry journal founded by Publishing Genius in 2006. Today it functions in partnership with Nashville Is Reads, curated by Keyhole Publications.
The Outdoor Journals feature poetry broadsides posted in various locations around Baltimore and Nashville. Typical spots to find a page include light posts, abandoned buildings, shopping carts, bus benches, [...]

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Poetry News:

— Actress backs medieval Norwich mystic appeal —

— out their business as usual, rarely consulting their Shakespeare, William Wordsworth or Robert Frost. One has to wonder if poetry has any place in the 21st century —

— What, exactly, is an artist book? —

— Music and poetry have been kissing cousins since each began —

— [...]

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Poetry News:

— A 54-year-old former schoolteacher has won the poetry category of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards —

— Using a pack of tarot cards as an early writing exercise, Kay Ryan says, forced her “to start dealing with these abstractions like love, death, the wheel of fortune.” and “I’ve always been able to count [...]

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Poetry News:

— Forgotten treasure from Brazil —

— Eyes, and whether or not to trust them, are central to Ode to Psyche by John Keats —

— Slain man identified as UC Riverside professor —

— Poetry Foundation clarifies the policy on their blog comments —

— The Poet’s Poet —

— A 21st-century warning from a 13th-century [...]

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Kay Ryan, Outsider With Sly Style, Named Poet Laureate
My map is updated.

Tags: Kay Ryan, poet, Poet Laureate, Poetry, Poetry News

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Poetry News:

— Court advisor says poem list infringed database right —

— Portugal Holds On to a Poet’s Words That Few Can Grasp —

— Moscow at the end of the first decade of the 21st century is not a place many would equate with poetry —

— For generations, both the young and the old in the [...]

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Poetry News:

— Readers solve ‘lost’ poet mystery —

— To the Editor: In his review of Frank O’Hara’s “Selected Poems” (June 29), William Logan … —

— Poetry Everywhere? Yes, Everywhere! —

— From great landscapes spring fine poetry, but which scenes of inspiration and dedication stick most in the mind? —

— Ex-Poet Phelps suits up for [...]

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Poetry News:

— Who Owns That Prayer? —

— Anthology traces lines of contemporary poets from across the sea —

— Can science explain why ABBA is so catchy? —

— A tribute to Jonathan Williams planned —

— U.S. isn’t immune from poet’s observations on injustice —

— Inspired by Jazz, a Poet Does ‘His Own Thing’ —

— Michigan poetry [...]

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