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Poetry News:

— Poetry should have punch. It should jab, it should undercut, clinch in the corners and consider in hard times the head butt —

— The mother of so much —

— MLB Poetry Preview: Minnesota Twins —

— English poetry masters: Percy Bysshe Shelley —

— Call for Entries to the Festival of Visual Poetry 2008 [...]

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Poetry News:

— The need for warmth is more important than people who have never been truly cold know —

— This great poets list has only one woman. About right, too —

— The poetry journal as mixtape —

— Two things often said about great poets are that they create the taste by which they are appreciated, [...]

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Poetry News:

— Why this bevy of bards, this plethora of poetry, this Vesuvian eruption of verse? —

— MLB Poetry Preview: Chicago Cubs —

— My first reaction was, “What are you smoking?” —

— This week, the Academy of American Poets announced the launch of … a mobile poetry archive providing free access to a collection [...]

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Poetry News:

— The 5-minute Interview: Felix Dennis, publisher and author —

— Poetry workshop: David Morley finds variety and accomplishment in equal measure in the nature poetry prompted by his March poetry ‘field trip’ —

— First mantra of the Rig Veda is the first known poem in the world —

— 2008 is the 120th anniversary year [...]

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Poetry News:

— Usually when I think, “Here’s something a poem needs to be written about,” I get as far away from pen and paper as I possibly can —

— Here is a poem giving pi to 21 digits when you replace each word with the number of letters in that word —

— Small Press and [...]

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Poetry News:

— The poet who may be prime minister —

— I still begin with the particular, and hope to arrive at the universal —

— Her husband, the poet Osip Mandelstam, wrote a famous epigram about the great leader, for which he met an early death —

— Vehicle of literary endeavour —

— With breakneck pacing he [...]

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[still getting splogged/scraped, sorry. Turned off the full RSS feed again.]
Poetry News:

— Pinned in a subway car with arms at your sides, you can call up a poem and enter a cathedral of words that anoints you again in your singular passions —

— Mary Jo Salter came of age as a poet in the 1970s [...]

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(not a draft but I fear I will be adding to it)

Poem by an American
I.

Tags: poem, Poetry

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Poetry News:

— National Book Critics Circle winners unveiled in New York —

— Where are the women writers in translation? —

— Find of the Day —

— Poetry of Li-Young Lee Is ‘Descended from Dreamers’ [MP3] —

— Note to Jack London, poet: Don’t give up your day job —

— McSweeney’s (online) wants pantoums and senryu [this [...]

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Poetry News:

— Post-apocalypse, Poetry, and Robots —

— Changing Hands Bookstore hosts a handful of acclaimed poets (all female) who contributed to Letters to the World: The Wom-Po Anthology —

— People find what they lack in themselves in this object of adoration —

— Iranian poet Simin Behbahani is the first recipient of Stanford’s Bita Prize for [...]

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Women writers from lower and working class backgrounds will gather for the 2008 Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Series Spring Symposium to share their experiences and work with readers and each other.
Beyond Our Beginnings – Women Writers from Lower and Working Class Backgrounds will be held March 25-27 on the Vanderbilt campus. The discussions and readings are [...]

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Poetry News:

— Official State Author and Poet Are Named —

— Owners To Open ‘Mystery Room’ Sealed For 50 Years —

— What are your feelings on MFA programs in regard to authors publishing in today’s market? —

— The rubric “poet among painters” does not adequately explain the radical shifts between formal and personal values in O’Hara’s [...]

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The Celebrity with the Worst Grammar in the U.S. is not a surprise.

Tags: National Grammar Day

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Poetry News:

— Initially championed by TS Eliot, the poetry of Lynette Roberts has long since fallen out of fashion, but her voice remains fresh and challenging —

— MLB Poetry Previews —

— Inventory By Frances Richey —

— Frances Wilson’s The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth reveals a passionate, talented woman whose love for her brother defined her [...]

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