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 can often seem to the discouraged poet — then putting poems in hotel nightstands or on subway cars only multiplies the public’s opportunities to ignore them —
- — Not for Li-Young Lee are the darker recesses of poetry, the bleak places where the soul loses its way and succumbs to hopelessness —
- — In his new book The Watchmaker’s Table, Nova Scotia poet Brian Bartlett proves that time is not, in fact, linear —
- — Amazon policy change threatens small publishers —
It’s now time to cast your votes for the 2008 Poet Laureate of The Blogosphere
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