Poetry News For May 8, 2007
Poetry News:
- — Berkeley Profs Wrote Some Good Books —
- — Lucille Clifton’s truth in poetry has made her the first African-American woman awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize —
- — Foldable Book of Poems —
- — Literary magazine loses its funding —
- — Besty Wergin, R-Princeton, criticized the state government finance bill in a poem Friday —
- — May 5, 2007 This week on A Prairie Home Companion ” a special springtime poetry show [you can listen online -- Bob Dorough is on it but no Blossom Dearie though] —
“When I saw this argument, my first reaction was embar(r)assment that the absurdity of vampire population dynamics has always been right in front of my face without my ever having noticed it.”
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