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Poetry News:

— Anonymous Greeting-Card Writers Put Their Heart Into Their Work —

— May Day was never the same after Allen Ginsberg’s 1965 visit to Prague —

— Use poetry in the workplace, says arts conference speaker —

— Poet fined for insulting Mexican flag, calls ruling threat to free speech
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— After 50 Years, Will Quality [...]

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Poetry News:

— You’re saying to the world, this is how I want to be read, this is how I want to be seen, and those are hard decisions to make —

— Poetry in Motion, Thanks to YouTube —

— The 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were awarded Friday evening, April 25, 2008, at UCLA’s Royce [...]

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Poetry News:

— Power Crazy Senior General Than Shwe: A chapbook edited by A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz —

— Are we all clear on what a chapbook is? —

— Taslima’s visa extended —

— Elizabeth Bishop’s Writings Collected in New Volume [with audio & video] —

— Upcoming exhibition: Notre Livre: À toute épreuve. A Collaboration between Joan [...]

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Poetry News:

— A Penis-shortening Device Described by the 13th Century Poet Rumi —

— Saginaw, Mich., might be sagging but we can admire it for producing poet and teacher Theodore Roethke, and for preserving his boyhood home —

— Books news: Earliest “Howl” tape uncovered at Reed —

— Brooklyn-based poet Tom Sleigh has won the $100,000 US [...]

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Poetry News:

— In a sequence about T.S. Eliot in California with his love interest Emily Hale, the couple visits the In-N-Out hamburger chain —

— At the point where one stage of our lives draws to a close and we are about to enter the next stage, there is always room for the hope of great [...]

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Poetry News:

— The Happy Endings Foundation hoax —

— Vendor of verse: It’s personal at NYC street ‘poem shop’ —

— “Poetry arises out of a mind that feels itself in some way to be cracked” —

— Editorial: A Muse Unplugged —

— In three books, over eight years, Matthea Harvey has moved to the front of the [...]

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Poetry News:

— Shakespeare in Dogpatch - Of sonnets and comic strips [link courtesy afitf thank you] —

— Apartment Complex Where Charles Bukowski Wrote “Post Office” For Sale, Could Be Leveled [link found here thank you] —

— Southern book festival announces authors for this year’s event [we have room for 1 guest if you plan [...]

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Poetry News:

— Mr. Rogers @ 1969 US Senate hearing [video at Google video] —

— How Barbie Stood Up to Allen Ginsberg —

— Partners in rhyme —

— The amateur ideal is the golden nugget at the center of all art forms, and for a very simple reason: Everybody has to start somewhere —

— Rival literary journals [...]

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Poetry News:

the process of getting published didn’t involve a single rejection letter —

Blake used the notebook for more than 30 years —

It’s fitting that Ginsberg’s juvenilia should serve as a beacon in the night of bad poetry —

After 700 years, Dante gets nose job —

Better nature after incalculable loss —

This [...]

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Poetry News:

The problem with these belated questions is that they ask the critic of Eliot to look closely at his life —

Let voices be heard on NEA’s plans —

A literary scholar and therapist argues that Allen Ginsberg’s psychiatric stay was crucial for his growth —

From Pearl River to Pulitzer Prize —

Rockin’ [...]

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vice-versa: the baseball issue
Cummings was studying classics at Harvard by the age of 16, after which he had ‘the time of [his] life’ interned in a French prison camp
Seamus Heaney melds mystic and mythic in verse
The nostalgia sometimes expressed for a vague “old days” when “poetry was popular” neglects the fact that much extremely popular [...]

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“Blue Peninsula” is unlike almost any other book about poetry
Revisiting Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ at 50
“Drake’s Psalmistry” By Jim Powell
Billy Collins and ‘Poetry on Record’
Four Seasons find their voice as Vivaldi sonnets are set to music

Tags: Allen Ginsberg, Billy Collins, James E. Tokley, Jim Powell, Madge McKeithen, Poetry, Poetry News, poetry writing, poets, Vivaldi

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Poet Ginsberg Debates His Father About Drug Use
A different kind of poetry: Janeczko opens students to new perspectives
With essays on art, abattoirs and body parts, the controversial periodical Documents was conceived by Georges Bataille as an alternative to surrealism
These two recent collections from B.C. poets offer a study in contrasts
Heaney gets good reviews at UK
Students [...]

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Ruth Lilly, granddaughter of the founder of Eli Lilly pharmaceutical company, has wanted more than anything to be a poet
Groundbreaking Collaborations Between Artists and Poets of 19th and 20th Centuries on Display at The New York Public Library
Howl, as Allen Ginsberg first presented it
According to legend, the poet Alexander Pope is responsible for all of [...]

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