On this page the following entries were made in the “April, 2006” time-frame.
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What thoughts I have of you tonight
He’s a poet - and kids all know it
Poets from Saskatoon, Montreal make short list for $100,000 Griffin prize
The art of staging a poet’s life and loss is hard to master
the opening poem in Nashville poet Dan Powers”™ new book Mighty Good Land, declares a rural Southern ethos in its first stanza
“˜Howl,”™ Ginsberg‘ Time Bomb, [...]
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By the Light Of the Silv’ry Moon
This selection is from Averno, a collection by Louise Gluck
Poetry Shop Survives, Even as Owner Departs
Arab literary giant Mohammad al-Maghout dies
Visionary who defied attempts at concrete classification
Charles Eaton, poet
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Big Band Music oh
New Elizabeth Bishop Book Sparks a Controversy (bug me not)
Ted Hughes project given boost
Blogger’s culinary odyssey awarded literary honour
Authors tell about inspiration
In his book Hoops , Major Jackson emphasizes a garden’s hopeful and civilizing qualities (bug me not)
Tags: Elizabeth Bishop, Forough Farrokhzad, Major Jackson, Poems, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Ted Hughes
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You Might as Well Live
National Poetry Month: What for?
Underneath the wit, Parker was a tortured soul
Variety of well-versed books hit shelves for National Poetry Month
Return my work, says Guantánamo poet
A poet and scholar spins her narrative
Tags: dorothy parker, Joyce Peseroff, National Poetry Month, Poems, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Ted Hughes
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EFQ on All Things Considered (NPR)
Tom Goldstein at EFQ… link
They didn’t use my poem. Oh well, Elysian Fields Quarterly, is a great litmag. You can subscribe here at Amazon. I really recommend it if you like baseball and literature.
Tags: Elysian Fields Quarterly
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dwell for a moment in that radiant doorway
Did you fool with your clocks for daylight savings time?
American Life in Poetry: A Pot of Red Lentils (congrats Peter)
Andrew Motion delights in the exemplary wisdom of Seamus Heaney’s latest collection, District and Circle
The Birch Grove by Seamus Heaney
Hearing again the life-altering, haunting words of poet Sexton
A poet responds to the horror of empty [...]
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I might be on NPR this week
well, a poem of mine might be on the program, Day to Day All Things Considered (NPR).
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Tom Goldstein, the editor of Elysian Fields Quarterly, a baseball literature litmag that has published me 3 or 4 times just phoned. He’s going into the studio to record a piece for them and is going to read one [...]
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A Grand Pleiades Occultation on April 1st
A special celestial event is coming up on Saturday evening, April 1st, for anyone in the eastern or central part of North America.
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Yep
Happy April Fool’s Day.
Bush Satire - The Bushiad and The Idyossey -
National Poetry Month Raises Awareness Of Poetry Prevention
Bush Regales Dinner Guests With Impromptu Oratory On Virgil’s Minor Works
Shakespeare Was, Like, The Ultimate Rapper
The Tale of Sir Thopas
And it is the start of, you know, National Poetry Month. poem a day.
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