Poetry News For February 27, 2008
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 —
- — the plowboy interview: Wendell Berry —
- — A suspicious degeneration —
- — Ida Fink, Tuvya Ruebner and Nili Mirsky are the winners of the 2008 Israel Prize for Literature, Poetry and Translation —
- — One thing that unites the fast-growing small presses on this year’s list is their willingness to experiment —

M. Morris Gaman responds:
Posted: February 27th, 2008 at 4:34 am →
I found a site today that has the archives of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, a poetry magazine on language poets, that stopped publication in 1981. The essays are just as much fun to read as the poems. I suggest it to you and all your readers.
http://english.utah.edu/eclipse/projects/LANGUAGE/language.html
check out my blog
-mmg
Bob Miller responds:
Posted: February 27th, 2008 at 11:02 am →
Hi,
I am looking for someone to write me a poem about directories, I am just starting out my own blog and would really like to have a nice poem to publish on my blog.
Please advise me if you could help me….
Many thanks and kind regards,
Bob.