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The job description: Study Shakespeare sonnets and soliloquies —

Wesleyan University Press Receives NEA Grant for Poetry —

I freely admit that I’m not fluent in the English professors’ wretched jargon —

New Orleans writers struggle to pen rebirth story —

Winter issue of New England Review features fiction, poetry and prose —

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You can’t trust what poets tell you about their works in progress —

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Sometimes a poem delights by mismatching some familiar style of language with a surprising topic —

With a Shakespearean sentence the brain sees it as grammatically difficult but tolerates it as making sense —

3 New Chancellors for Academy of American Poets —

There’s something comforting to Virgil’s conception of humanity —

Roubaud is [...]

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Western Maryland literary journal debuts —

Creativity, Learned or Innate? —

Only the poets know what they”™re writing about and the rest of us have to guess —

Ratio of male to female writers in national ‘general interest’ magazines —

Night owls are more creative —

Letters to the legend of love —

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How does a child learn that the stress is on the second syllable of giraffe, and on the first of zebra? —

The new year will bring the 250th anniversary of the birth of William Blake —

Russia: CIA Helped Pasternak Win Nobel Prize —

Poet Moves Off the Grid to Reconnect —

Monument [...]

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley will speak Tuesday, Jan. 23, at Ingram Hall at the Blair School of Music on the Vanderbilt University campus. [more here]

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This was a pretty good rant: compared to the [invective] that pass for ‘poetry’ published each Saturday… —

the University of Sydney will soon possess the sole remaining chair in Australian literature —

Keats House will be restored to original 19th-century condition —

Where is the Iraqi War Literature? —

The failure of these [...]

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I like to see a poet wearin’ diamonds! —

“At the Window” By Linda Gregerson —

Hodson Gift to JHU Press Will Fund ‘The Complete Prose of T.S. Eliot’ —

Today’s writers still seek, find new insight into Bard —

Sam Tanenhaus, editor of the Book Review, is responding to reader questions this week [...]

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The writer’s secret is not inspiration ““ for it is never clear where it comes from ““ it is his stubbornness, his patience. That lovely Turkish saying ““ to dig a well with a needle ““ seems to me to have been said with writers in mind. [Orhan Pamuk - 2006 Nobel Lecture] [...]

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Culture and digressions? [link courtesy of large hearted boy] —

Some categories of writing aspire to celebration more than information —

A group of writers has collected more than 800 fading landscape terms in a new book in hopes of keeping them from going extinct. —

Gothic, ambiguous and apparently amoral, The Rime of [...]

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Eleanor Lerman’s poems have sociological savvy, philosophical rue, historical recognition and vernacular resilience [link courtesy of the page] —

Writers establish literary press based in Rome [Georgia] [the U.S. state] [not the country of Georgia] [nor the capital of Italy] —

Adam Mickiewicz, the national poet of Poland, was born in Kaldceuskaje Zavossõe Zaosiye [...]

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Poet McHugh, who teaches at the University of Washington, is one of nine writers named a USA Fellow this year —

It’s often said Australian poetry has fallen on hard times. True, if you think what corporate publishers have stopped doing for poetry; not true once you count the small presses…. —

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I locked myself in my bedroom, dug way down, and wrote an even more bitter poem —

Without rhythm, verse is lifeless —

Police hunt for Didsbury scrawler —

Bradstreet’s popular and academic image is as deceptively complex and deep as her couplets —

This month’s shortlisted poets have tackled difficult subjects with [...]

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Hence, was it a mistake on the part of Maila to participate in this ‘tender’ for a national song —

Hollywood is bemused by rumours that Lindsay Lohan is all set to play Caitlin Thomas, the widow of the poet Dylan Thomas —

To meet the man most folks consider the greatest literary editor [...]

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