On this page the following entries were made in the “January, 2006” time-frame.
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Two solitary stars
Poetry? It’ll soon be about as popular as morris dancing
Play offers poets very little justice
Three is the magic number for haiku and Japan
Fisher Poets Gathering
Wandering “Lonely as a Cloud” in the Lakes District? Watch Your Step
Billy Collins seen as people’s poet
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A bell rings somewhere
Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century
To Play Pianissimo by Lola Haskins
Fargnoli named as state’s poet laureate
Images give form ” and length ” to poet‘ work
Poems capture place in spare but loving detail
For the past four decades Jack Gilbert has been fashioning bitterly honest poems about “adult concerns,” as he calls them
“Alligator Dark” by [...]
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Gong Xi Fa Cai!
The ephemeral and the everyday
What a joy it is to announce the winners of our 10th annual Young Poets Contest
Year Of The Dog Chinese Business Horoscopes
The wonder of Alan Ross’s poetry was that it co-existed with half-a-dozen other literary occupations
The Park Drunk by Robin Robertson
Agent Confirms Author Nasdijj and Gay-Erotica Writer Timothy Barrus Are [...]
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All others, from all things, draw all that’s good
Is poetry the new Prozac?
Google Free to Cache: Court
The long road to Plath
Gallery’s £1.6m appeal for Donne
Prestigious book awards to be judged by peers
How much tragedy in Literature Lost?
“Two for the Montrose Drive-In” By Rita Dove
Notes On Donald Justice, The Study Of Prosody, & The Collected Poems: A Donald Justice Primer (Part I Of [...]
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I say drop a mouse into a poem
Nationally Acclaimed Poet Sells 297 Acres to Nature Conservancy
U. of I. magazine named ‘Best New Literary Journal’
Meg Ryan as Sylvia Plath?
Latest Literary Hoax?: Is Native American Writer Nasdijj Really Gay”“Erotica Writer Timothy Patrick Barrus?
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Gone, but clear in the mind, memory’s riddle
Obit: Charles G. Macdonald (his book here)
Prove Your Passion for Seafood and Take Home $10,000
Sze named Santa Fe’s first poet laureate
Portland celebrates the life of poet laureate William Stafford at annual birthday party
‘Matisse’ Author Wins Top Whitbread Prize (requires bug me not)
The sculpture is titled “One Art” after a poem about loss by Elizabeth Bishop [...]
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so deep in luve am I
Burns Night
Burns: the original punk rock people’s poet
Hypergraphia for Poetry in an Epileptic Patient
Turkey: Court drops case against novelist Orhan Pamuk
Beowulf & Grendel
Asahi Haikuist Network
I talked on the phone to my friend Chris in Detroit and I asked her how everything was going up there with the whole we’re-having-the-Superbowl-in-Detroit thing. I could hear her rolling [...]
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But pleasures are like poppies spread
Well-kent phrases from the Bard’s best poems
Christian Wiman’s verses range from the bleak to the witty
Poet Mark Strand calls dust-jacket photos “the door to the dark room of the imagination”
Contest for best Caltrain love poem
Browning’s dreamy snake girl goes on sale
The agents were using well-known poems as the cyphers for encoding their messages
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I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight
Poetry from the tower, in prison
Jo McDougall, author of two University of Arkansas Press poetry collections, will have her poetry dramatized by the Arkansas Repertory Theatre
Interview: poet Christopher Logue
A New England poet on Terracina Boulevard
Letters
‘I’m No Saint’; In Praise of Physics; Billy Collins (requires Bug Me Not)
Noted poet, activist Maya Angelou to speak [...]
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To be enfolded in sapphire wings. Surprising.
He was admired by Pound and Kenneth Burke, and often published his own works (requires bug me not)
This poem by Alcman, a pre-classical Greek poet, has the quality of immediacy (requires bug me not)
It’s alleged Hackney bilked would-be writers out of thousands of dollars across the United States
Geoffrey Hill’s latest collection, Without [...]
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Dialing For Dollars is trying to find me
Ballgloves and poetry
Liars, Hoaxsters or Just Writers?
With a lot of artists, the mystique is to baffle their readership. She never does. Her aim is to communicate
A young lion of the Bay Area poetry scene, McClure was himself an artistic rebel
All the poems have something to commend them
A true history of American hoaxes
Bin Laden’s [...]
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It writhes!- it writhes!- with mortal pangs
[Indiana] Poets Urged to Submit Work For New Airport Terminal
For the 57th year in a row, a mystery man has paid tribute to Edgar Allan Poe by placing roses and a bottle of cognac on the writer’s grave to mark his birthday
Joyce tops poll of most valuable books
Subway officials surprised at cold reaction to Pushkin [...]
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Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick
“Lampblack and Ash” is the recipient of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize for poetry
Alberto Rios: A Yellow Leaf
Literary Magazine Launched via DVD
‘Nevermore’: The Poignant Song of The Raven (bug me not)
ACT I Presents ‘Spoon River Anthology’ [local Nashville]
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once, this town was your home
Central Asia: Why Do Region’s Leaders Long To Be Poets And Authors?
‘Passionate’ poems scoop £10,000
Language colors the way you see the world
Literary Poser ‘JT Leroy’ Fooled the Music Biz, Too
“Two Million Feet of Vinyl” By Jim Powell
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