Poetry News:
— There is little that can make us as acutely conscious of the fact that we are still alive as being shown the body of someone who is dead —
— Start a Notebook on Poets.org - 30 Ways To Celebrate National Poetry Month —
— “if anything the poem and video are poking fun at [...]
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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:
— Poetry workshop: Try Sean O’Brien’s exercise on poetic dramatisation —
— Brian Turner and Bruce Weigl from Lannan Podcasts by Lannan Foundation [links to MP3] —
— The revival of Cid Corman’s journal Origin reminds me of when international discussion of poetry took place at a slower, more intense, pace —
— One includes “text, pictures, [...]
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Poetry News:
— “The Poem of a Life,” Mark Scroggins’s terrific new biography, never strays far from Zukofsky the poet. —
— Over the past 100 years Milton’s standing has declined more steeply than that of any other great English poet —
— City officials see Cornish as a poet of the people, someone who will reach across [...]
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Poetry News:
— The [Washington] state Arts Commission is taking applications for the job of poet laureate —
— An ex-soldier’s take on recent war poetry —
— in giving MacNolia a voice, the poet, A. Van Jordan, deals with the subject of balancing our love —
— The poems aren’t irreverent ““ they don’t mock the grave or [...]
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Poet Harvey Shapiro, bard of New York
Alumnus Brian Turner receives Northern California Book Award
Economists have usually been terrified of sticking their necks out on literary matters
Dillon filling shoes of boozing poet in ‘Factotum’
2006 Wallace Stegner Fellows named
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The Path Less Followed Leads to Wyeth
English professors, students ask lawmakers to reject state poem
Brian Turner, who was an infantry team leader in Iraq, recently reflected on the war-time experiences in his new book of poems
Awarded annually, the scholarship is one of the most prestigious distinctions available to young American poets
George Orwell’s FBI Documents
It is [...]
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The U.S. poet laureate and winner of this year‘ Pulitzer Prize in poetry is a Unitarian Universalist
The poet Walt Whitman gazes with affection at his companion, Peter Doyle, a streetcar conductor
Here, Bullet, reflects his war-time experiences in graceful and unflinching poetry
The first modern dictionary of the English language was an extraordinary achievement, even for a [...]
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