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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:

— Today’s poem is “An Ode to Drunkenness and Other Criminal Activities” by Rebecca Loudon —

— U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic contributed original verse for the liner, in an appropriate fit between poet and musician —

— New Buk on DVD —

— Online conversation with Stryker brigade poet Brian Turner —

— Al Young took to [...]

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Poetry News:

— Catherine Breese Davis wrote of loss, abandonment, destitution, despair and decrepitude—and she knew what she was talking about —

— Between Poetry and Performance, a Film Finds a Rocker’s Heart —

— A Voice Poetry Roundup: From half-baked utopias to diabetic bitches —

— But if no one likes to read poetry — or so it [...]

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Poetry News:

— Thanks to poetry, X=imagine the possibilities —

— Salt To Expand Its Stable Of Free Online Literary Magazines —

— His meteoric poetic output began with his first professionally published poem at 16, but by 20 he stopped writing poetry and would later declare of his work: “All of that was just pig swill.” [...]

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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:

— I think that you have to go on your nerve—that’s something Frank O’Hara used to say —

— Most critics thought the young Barker a better poet than the young Thomas, and the latter, who called his rival’s poems “masturbatory monologues”, seems to have been madly jealous —

— Definition of poetry splits the literati [...]

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Poetry News:

— How to trivialise women’s poetry —

— elitism is a laughable charge to levy against an art that doesn’t require tickets or a premium cable subscription —

— The antipoem’s burlesque charm hits like a nightstick —

— An interview with poet Mary Jo Salter —

— And I may say, perhaps, I’m happier writing about doctors [...]

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Poetry News:

— The sonnet is a frequently misunderstood form with an enduring appeal. Fancy having a crack at your own ‘little song’? —

— it also cements her reputation as the greatest poet of her generation —

— This sense of freedom is produced by Ashbery’s diction (no American poet has had a larger, more diverse vocabulary, [...]

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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:

— Unfortunately, poetry in general has a bad reputation —

— new lit mag alert —

— The Griffin Poetry Prize Announces the 2008 Canadian and International Shortlist —

— She did say, though, that her interest in cryptography, the study of coded writing, influenced her poems, along with her love of puzzles —

— Never has so [...]

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Poetry News:

— A translator from many tongues, she loves a pun, even when mourning a dead pooch —

— Atlanta Sings of Poems Electric, Past and Present —

— What We Miss if We Pass on Poetry (Hint: Not Poems) —

— Langston Hughes, 1902-1967: The Poet Voice of African-Americans —

— Houston poet wins $50,000 award —

— Reed [...]

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Poetry News:

— Some poems seem inaccessible. But when one resonates, it changes our perceptions.
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— Poet Cathy Smith Bowers has made a career of nudging writers along —

— An icon sees poetic justice — and a conspiracy —

— Fairfield U offers new MFA in writing —

— An interview with poet Jorie Graham —

— Writers awarded [...]

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Poetry News:

— We cannot be caged by the moment of dying; in dying we are, in effect, set free, even if oblivious —

— Clarke named Wales national poet —

— Amazon Does Damage Control On Its Print-On-Demand Demands
— Elementary students mix poetry, basketball —

— UGA’s Judith Ortiz-Cofer: A Poet Of Many Places —

— The Boston-born [...]

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Poetry News:

— So what did Peter Mark Roget, the creator of Roget’s Thesaurus, do to handle all the pain, grief, sorrow, affliction, woe, bitterness, unhappiness and misery in a life that lasted over 90 years? —

— Others believed poet Sylvia Plath was lead singer of pop group the Black Eyed Peas —

— Do not panic…yet. [...]

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