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Cathal O’Searcaigh

Poetry News:

— The Poetry Center’s American Poetry Archives is one of the most extensive literary collections in the U.S., home to approximately 3,000 original recordings captured at the Poetry Center’s live poetry reading series —

— Man gets suspended term, Frost homework in vandalism case —

— He and his wife, Tibetan poet and essayist Tsering Woeser, [...]

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Poetry News:

— Poetry should have punch. It should jab, it should undercut, clinch in the corners and consider in hard times the head butt —

— The mother of so much —

— MLB Poetry Preview: Minnesota Twins —

— English poetry masters: Percy Bysshe Shelley —

— Call for Entries to the Festival of Visual Poetry 2008 [...]

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Poetry News:

— Usually when I think, “Here’s something a poem needs to be written about,” I get as far away from pen and paper as I possibly can —

— Here is a poem giving pi to 21 digits when you replace each word with the number of letters in that word —

— Small Press and [...]

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Poetry News:

— Written in English, the collection gathers 25 Latino poets from across the country and gives each a hefty eight to 10 pages to showcase their work —

— Houses at Night: An interview with John Ashbery —

— Might not be safe for work nor good taste …but I am easily amused —

— Ó Searcaigh [...]

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Poetry News:

— Barack Obama’s creditable poems are in an erratic tradition of political versifying —

— ‘Lap-sonnets’ for Valentine’s Day —

— When a professor invents a machine that writes books, and then uses that machine to write more than 200,000 different books, there arises the question, “Why?” —

— Sincerity and Its Discontents in American Poetry Now [...]

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Poetry News:

— The Three Graces [may require bug me not - thanks for the link, Jim] —

— From this we can conclude, to put it baldly: many writers verbally subvert corporate mentalities, but this poetry is outright sabotage. [might not be safe for work] —

— Two men face arson charges over fire at ‘Mary [...]

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Poetry News:

— Blogs versus Print: is there a prejudice? [and more, kinda, about the legitimacy of blogging.] —

— Elizabeth Bishop, in her early 20s, doing cart-wheels across the field at the farm —

— English Professor Sets Poetry Wheels in Motion for Luzerne County Residents —

— Poet Cathal O’Searcaigh wins €20,000 literary prize —

— Anna Akhmatova’s [...]

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