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Poetry News For February 5, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. He was, said his friend William Burroughs, an “inner space explorer”, but the Frenchman remained a solitary figure, outside any artistic grouping, almost the only exponent of his art, and almost certainly the only poet to record sounds and movements by swallowing a microphone
  2. Our poet is in a far colder place than we are
  3. Featured Book Review: Savage Beauty by Nancy Milford
  4. the only time I’m a poet is when I am drafting and revising a poem, only in those moments
  5. Indiana looks for successor poet to fill government post
  6. Blogging the AWP, Round Two
  7. Stanzas of Sin With a 21st-Century Spin
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Poetry News For February 3, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. The second part of this post is about my impression of the role that some phantasmatic nightmare image of AWP plays in the imaginations of many participants in the various online poetry worlds
  2. The poet laureate talks about how he’s not enamored of nature, his vote in the New Hampshire primary and the American preoccupation with happiness
  3. Robert Pinsky’s work speaks to us in our common language and relates that language to our hopes as citizens
  4. LOC Guide to Poetry & Literature Webcasts: Individual Poets, Novelists, and Writers
  5. McGrath’s audacity has a genial, sociable quality, often with a flippancy that he directs back at himself, in the American tradition of kidding
  6. Bukowski’s typewriter and night lair in daylight. Does this seem at all familiar to you?
  7. Drunk poet climbs over cliff, seeking inspiration

This song is being beamed to the “North Star” tomorrow. Hint: John Lennon wrote it. link. Happy 40th birthday, cool song.

Solving The Mystery Of The Metallic Sheen Of Fish

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Poetry News For February 2, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. with its closing lines inscribed on Bishop’s tombstone…
  2. One of an avant-garde group called the Neoteric, or “new’’ poets, he lived a short, libidinous life
  3. Blogging the AWP
  4. Haiku poet aims to preserve seasonal words
  5. Richard Newman has spent the past thirteen years working to keep St. Louis’ oldest literary magazine alive
  6. New Voices in Writing Offer Their Advice
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Poetry News For February 1, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. “… the legitimacy/relevance/absurdity of AWP”
  2. Although it is less thematically unified than previous books, Rich shows a grasp of language and form here that is still impressive
  3. I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse
  4. Dear Lord, save Mississippi from the Paul Ott Verses
  5. You are invited to submit an acrostic poem for a chapbook-sized edited collection entitled Power Crazy Senior General Than Shwe
  6. ‘Poetics Plus’ offers variety of events [Buffalo, NY] —
  7. Detained poet denied visits and parcels
  8. Puck Poet; Grenfell professor’s book based on life of hockey great Terry Sawchuk
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Poetry News For January 29, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. Online Bronx magazine taking shape
  2. A 17-year-old boy who had once worked as a kitchen aide at Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf campus recognized the remote farmhouse’s potential for parties
  3. T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound were the “Odd Couple” of 20th-century poetry
  4. Tuesday marks the 163rd anniversary of the publication of one of the most famous poems in American literature
  5. Poems of vitality and mortality
  6. … “unusual and unwanted items,” including a petrified alligator’s foot, dead beetles and poems
  7. La Petite Zine is fresh
  8. Experts Stunned By Discoveries In Home Of Late 77-Year-Old Frugal Librarian
  9. Latino poets will have their own Super Bowl this Friday as nearly 30 established and upcoming poets will come together for a reading

Safe travels to AWP.

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