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Poetry News:

— We are each a bundle of nervous impulses: to fidget, to gossip, to be distracted, to inquire, and especially to satisfy our scalding curiosity by looking at anything we’re told not to look at —

— Big is still best but not everything Americans do is supersized - a rich tradition of shorter verse [...]

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Poetry News:

— It may be argued, then, that Plath’s “lasting achievement” was her ability to combine the personal and the mythical in her poetry, thereby endowing this with a timeless and “relevant” literary effect —

— A Russian Poet Unpeels Her Many Lives —

— Rare Emily Dickinson photo(?) purchased on Ebay —

— Intelligence And Rhythmic Accuracy [...]

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Poetry News:

— He died from a love of poetry [thanks Lee!] —

— Theater For The New City will present On Naked Soil - Imagining Anna Akhmatova, a new play written and co-starring stage and screen veteran Rebecca Schull —

— Punishing the publisher —

— Stuck for a rhyming scheme? Try the ghazal. It’s wickedly difficult to [...]

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Poetry News:

— Spent 22 Years Collecting 15,000 Similes; Frank J. Wilstach’s Ardent and Relentless Hunt for This Elusive Figure of Speech Results in a Remarkable Collection - By Joyce Kilmer [book is at Google books] —

— The Totality of Causes: Li-Young Lee and Tina Chang in Conversation —

— “Jennifer L. Knox is pure magic.” —

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Poetry News:

— More than 60 years after it was written, George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” remains the classic essay on the relationship between words, truth, propaganda and politics —

— ‘Lyrical Terrorist’ found guilty in British court and ‘Lyrical Terrorist led double life’ and ‘Lyrical terrorist’ convicted for jihad poems —

— Here is another [...]

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Poetry News:

— “Bestov, schmestov,” but these poems are pretty darned good —

— Is there any purpose to translating poetry? —

— This country‘ best-selling contemporary poetry book, according to the most recent list on poetryfoundation.com… —

— Great Poets Akhmatova and Gumilyov to Appear on Screen —

— The announcement that Paul Muldoon will be the next poetry [...]

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Poetry News:

— Revealed: Sylvia Plath’s unseen art, discovered in the attic —

— Stevensville man named state’s poet laureate —

— A culmination of sorts came in 1983 when we collaborated with Dudley Randall‘ Broadside Press —

— Sterling family mourns loss of “˜Mary Had a Little Lamb”™ home —

— First, I offer you “Lot’s Wife,” a poem [...]

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Poetry News:

— How Jim Morrison Died —

— The Pirahã, Everett wrote, have no numbers, no fixed color terms, no perfect tense, no deep memory, no tradition of art or drawing, and no words for “all,” “each,” “every,” “most,” or “few” —

— We’re poets, so this was an amazingly stressful situation for us —

— Actress Katrice [...]

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Poetry News:

— Ode To The Best Poem Set In A Southern Junkyard [ and here is the poem ] link found here thank you —

— The Fall and Fall of the P-Zine —

— Poem race row splits council —

— … Joseph Brodsky once said of her that she “is the kind of poet that simply ‘happens’” [link [...]

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Poetry News:

— a bookshelf called the Cave, which allows readers to curl up in a form-fitting seat, surrounded by their beloved books —

— He removed WB Yeats’ tonsils, and was made infamous by Ulysses —

— Best summer reads: poetry —

— Zemeckis’ ‘Beowulf’ to bow in IMAX —

— Summer Reading: The poetry of Anna Akhmatova [...]

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Poetry News:

— Blogs versus Print: is there a prejudice? [and more, kinda, about the legitimacy of blogging.] —

— Elizabeth Bishop, in her early 20s, doing cart-wheels across the field at the farm —

— English Professor Sets Poetry Wheels in Motion for Luzerne County Residents —

— Poet Cathal O’Searcaigh wins €20,000 literary prize —

— Anna Akhmatova’s [...]

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Poetry News:

— What are the questions that you live with, as a poet? —

— The Iranian literary monthly Bokhara paid tribute to the renowned Russian poet Anna Akhmatova —

— Interview with Iranian Poet Farideh Hassanzadeh —

— How many books can you read without wanting to write one? —

— Antioch College to close in 2008 —

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Poetry News:

Subverting violent computer games with religious poetry —

the relationship between coffee, literature and commerce —

Report after report testifies to declining literacy in America [link good for 5 days] —

The Major Poet is a continuation of all the other Major Poets who have read here —

Reading Akhmatova’s essays, one is soon [...]

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Poetry News:

How does a child learn that the stress is on the second syllable of giraffe, and on the first of zebra? —

The new year will bring the 250th anniversary of the birth of William Blake —

Russia: CIA Helped Pasternak Win Nobel Prize —

Poet Moves Off the Grid to Reconnect —

Monument [...]

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