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Poetry News:

— Alan Brownjohn enjoys something old and something new in four strong collections —

— “Change is the nursery,” the poet wrote in his third elegy, “Of musicke, joy, life, and eternity” —

— If babies get an edge in math by listening to Mozart, might poetry ” Mother Goose, Shakespeare‘ sonnets, Emily Dickinson [...]

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Poetry News:

— there is a growing sense that enough is enough ” and that the friction between old and new book media obscures the fact that the two are in bed together now —

— the growing body of Muslim American literature has reached the critical mass where it might be considered its own genre [...]

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Poetry News:

— Lucky us — every day in the poetry blogosphere, we can find any number of useful, thought-provoking posts on poetry —

— Self-pity, doggerel and beastliness —

— At the Library of Congress, U.S. and British Laureates Put a Notion in Motion —

— A very strange kind of rebel —

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Darryl and I met with the surgeon yesterday. She didn’t give me a definitive surgery date yet but it will either be May 31st or during the first week of June. It will be at Centennial Women’s Hospital, as was the surgery I had in November. My hematocrit is .6 above the threshold for mandatory-transfusion-before-surgery, [...]

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Poetry News:

— You’ve probably seen it a thousand times today. Why? —

— University is unsealing letters between author and friend after 20 years —

— That [Roberto Clemente] quotation was the theme for this year’s poetry contest —

— poet Tony Hillier spent the day paying people £1 to read them a poem — [...]

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Poetry News:

— Want to be a poet? Use caution, Better Business Bureau says —

— Found in a treasure chest: The medal that Siegfried Sassoon ‘threw into the Mersey in anti-war protest’ —

— Queens Verses The World, Picks New Boro Poet —

— Paper, Plastic Or Poetry? —

— Women Poets from the Middle [...]

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Poetry News:

— Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! —

— The Poets.org Poetcast, featuring poems from Maurice Manning, Mary Karr and Carl Dennis [links to MP3] —

— PennSound is like iTunes for poetry - but each poem is free, said Charles Bernstein —

— literary bodice rippers for a good cause — [...]

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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 [...]

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Poetry News:

Poet, Mother, Editor, Wife —

A new Selected Poems from a long-established, much-honored poet provides a new generation of readers with the opportunity to scan a career —

poetry auction for the Frank Sherlock emergency fund —

For an episode in the delightfully cantankerous relationship between Gertrude Stein and her brother … —

Poet [...]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQJee3Y8RnU
The “wordloaf” episode of the Simpsons is being rerun tonight.

Tags: breadloaf, Poetry, the simpsons

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Poetry News:

Within a few decades, from these unpromising origins, a brilliant and original body of Hebrew verse began to take shape —

There’s a certain embarrassment in admitting to writing poetry —

Bright stars portray Keats’s doomed love —

in 1994 a man from Springfield, Ore., included in his will the provision that his skin [...]

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Poetry News:

Onion Radio News Announces Annual Poetry Contest-Winner [I think Foetry should be notified.] —

With Lilly backing, poetry group closes on prime home —

Seventy years ago this Sunday, people in New York City stopped what they were doing to look up at the sky —

UNM’s Frumkin remembered for his compassion —

Silence [...]

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Hey ya’ll
Next week I am meeting with my surgeon to schedule another surgery. Hopefully I can get it over with ASAP. If anyone wants to take over Poetry Hut Blog temporarily, let me know (email) else PHB will go dark for a couple weeks.
This is a good info site: Hysterectomy Support by HysterSisters.com.
Yeah, that’s what [...]

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Poetry News:

MSN-Mainichi Daily News: Haiku —

Free-market poets’ economy of words —

Oh, did you miss the usual National Poetry Month tidbit? —

Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987, Joseph Brodsky was recognized in his lifetime as one of Russia’s great modern poets —

Pigs pollute park named after poet —

Versions of [...]

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