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Poetry News:

— with its closing lines inscribed on Bishop’s tombstone… —

— One of an avant-garde group called the Neoteric, or “new’’ poets, he lived a short, libidinous life —

— Blogging the AWP —

— Haiku poet aims to preserve seasonal words —

— Richard Newman has spent the past thirteen years working to keep St. Louis’ oldest [...]

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Poetry News:

— Writing tops poll of ideal jobs —

— Prolific poet was a gracious critic —

— Mary Jo Salter and Brad Leithauser, a couple with individual success, will write the next chapter of Hopkins’ Writing Seminars —

— Conversation With a Poet Laureate —

— Rare Anne Spencer collection headed to UVa —

— Renowned poet and Tennessee [...]

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Poetry News:

— The intellectual seeds planted by the college still flourish in Black Mountain today —

— Simic Receives $100,000 Poetry Award —

— Nature a theme in laureate’s poems —

— There is always ferment in the world of poetry, probably because there is rarely money in the world of poetry —

— Sam’s gruff melody grabs attention [...]

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Poetry News:

The job description: Study Shakespeare sonnets and soliloquies —

Wesleyan University Press Receives NEA Grant for Poetry —

I freely admit that I’m not fluent in the English professors’ wretched jargon —

New Orleans writers struggle to pen rebirth story —

Winter issue of New England Review features fiction, poetry and prose —

Book [...]

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Reb and Collin have some interesting things to say about poetry.
Poetry News:
1. the idea that poetry can be straightforward and still be worthwhile bothers certain poets so much ”
2. What Are Words Worth? ”
3. Learning How to Read Slowly Again (login requires bug me not) ”
4. In those days, men had art and women [...]

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Larkin’s lost notebook of love poems to go on sale for £20,000
Literature will not survive the 21st century
A Mystery That Ends In Poetry (requires bug me not)
For poet Kate Light, the conference will mark the release of “Gravity‘ Dream”
Costa takes literary prize from pub to coffee shop
Poetry with Billy Collins, Part II (NPR Fresh Air [...]

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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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Chinua Achebe’s masterly Collected Poems
City seeks poet laureate for Victoria book prize gig [Canada]
Poets point to Creeley as influential
Pulitzer Prize winner and former poet laureate will get $100,000
John Lennon’s sketches sell for $226,000

harmolodics (has sound) from Ornette Coleman.

Tags: Billy Collins, Chinua Achebe, John Lennon, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Richard Wilbur, Robert Creeley

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Poetry for the common man
Poet: Felt unfit as laureate
Letter, Ernest Hemingway to Archibald MacLeish discussing Ezra Pound’s mental health and other literary matters
The poem went undelivered, however, because the sun’s glare upon the snow-covered ground blinded Frost from seeing his text
A Cemetery of Poets Is in Crisis in Rome (requires bug me not)
Muriel Rukeyser’s [...]

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