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Al Young

Poetry News:

— Today’s poem is “An Ode to Drunkenness and Other Criminal Activities” by Rebecca Loudon —

— U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic contributed original verse for the liner, in an appropriate fit between poet and musician —

— New Buk on DVD —

— Online conversation with Stryker brigade poet Brian Turner —

— Al Young took to [...]

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Poetry News:

— I think that you have to go on your nerve—that’s something Frank O’Hara used to say —

— Most critics thought the young Barker a better poet than the young Thomas, and the latter, who called his rival’s poems “masturbatory monologues”, seems to have been madly jealous —

— Definition of poetry splits the literati [...]

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Poetry News:

This week: Write a poem about someone who died in 2006 —

Al Young’s New Year’s resolutions —

her books sit in the poetry section, where they generate mild outrage for failing to conform quite to genre —

Thus was born Carpenter Poets of Jamaica Plain —

Sandburg documentary project develops new focus — [...]

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