Poetry News:
- — Memoirist, poet and Book World contributor Mary Karr will be online Tuesday, June 17 at 3 p.m. ET to discuss her Poet’s Choice column, her best-selling 1995 memoir The Liars’ Club, and the joys, seductions and struggles of the writing life —
- — On the Self Publishing Argument —
- — where human thoughts seem to emanate from organic forms, and all is rendered in a poetry of jungle-like density where the chief pleasure is the texture of the language itself —
- — He believed he had an excellent voice and would sing his own poems to helpless audiences who clapped in terror —
- — ‘I embraced surrealism … and psychoanalysis, which closely abutted surrealism. Together, they represented what I wanted to do’. —
- — Peter O’Leary digs deep into the Poetry magazine archive to uncover the origins of the Objectivist movement —
- — Maybe vets of that great generation created a distance inside them that distanced their kids, a sadness that’s made for some great poems —
- — A row has broken out in Portugal’s literary world over plans by heirs of the nation’s most famous modern poet —
- — Call for donations —
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