Poetry News For January 2, 2008
Poetry News:
- — Vandals ransacked the interior of Homer Noble Farm, the summer home of the late poet Robert Frost —
- — Every New Year’s Eve, the normally dry Coast Guard log takes on a lyrical charm —
- — John Ashbery’s verse can be hard to understand, but the simple act of reading his latest collection, Notes From the Air, is a pleasure in itself —
- — The theatrics of Russia’s Silver Age poets come alive in Paul Schmidt’s theatrical translations —
- — Revisiting Cole Porter’s ‘Top’ —
- — Landis Everson was one of the Berkeley Renaissance, an avant-garde poets’ group from the 1950s —
- — The Blush of the New —
- — Ken Tolson is the real-life grandson of Melvin B. Tolson, whose work as an educator, mentor and poet is highlighted in the new film The Great Debaters —
Most clicked links of last month:
- Poet’s Choice” columnist Robert Pinsky fields questions and comments on this year in poetry
- Since 1945, only three poems have been published by the charming grey-haired spinster who has won every US poetry prize worth winning.
- Prize-Winning Poet Robert Hass On American Poetry, Bob Dylan, Impact of ‘The Big Lebowski’
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