Poetry News For May 13, 2007
Poetry News:
- — there is a growing sense that enough is enough ” and that the friction between old and new book media obscures the fact that the two are in bed together now —
- — the growing body of Muslim American literature has reached the critical mass where it might be considered its own genre —
- — Mothers of Poetic Invention —
- — WH Auden is to blame for everything that went wrong with English poetry —
- — The reader can enter the poems, delight in them, and sometimes not be able to find a way out —
- — Shakespeare gets comic treatment —
One of my ancestors came from this I kid you not village.
Interestingly, the “k” sound (or the “hard c”), as heard in “quack” and “duck”, has long been seen in the comedy world as especially funny.
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