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Poetry News:

— Scantily Clad e-chaps —

— When James Woolley, Smith Professor of English, discovered a lost manuscript of the 18th century Irish satirist Jonathan Swift, he was met with a jaw-dropping surprise: the poet’s first unpublished poem in centuries —

— “I do not think that more information always makes a richer poem. I am attracted [...]

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Poetry News:

— The poet who may be prime minister —

— I still begin with the particular, and hope to arrive at the universal —

— Her husband, the poet Osip Mandelstam, wrote a famous epigram about the great leader, for which he met an early death —

— Vehicle of literary endeavour —

— With breakneck pacing he [...]

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Poetry News:

— Power Crazy Senior General Than Shwe: A chapbook edited by A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz —

— Are we all clear on what a chapbook is? —

— Taslima’s visa extended —

— Elizabeth Bishop’s Writings Collected in New Volume [with audio & video] —

— Upcoming exhibition: Notre Livre: À toute épreuve. A Collaboration between Joan [...]

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Poetry News:

— Our Rich Authors Make Cheap Literature; Ida M. Tarbell Laments Tendency of Some of Our Modern Writers to Sacrifice Their Independence and Self-Respect for the Sake of High Prices By Joyce Kilmer —

— Controversial Bangladeshi feminist writer Taslima Nasreen has been flown out of the Indian city of Calcutta after violent protests by [...]

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Poetry News:

Dryden sets up a cast of symbolic figures to express the folly and wrongdoing of an old year and the hopes of a new —

Poetry is hard work, and it should be, says professor —

Lexington poet clearly earns spot at front of pack —

Poetry is thought to be an elite art, [...]

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I went to the Tom Waits concert last night. I think this is going to be long, sorry.
The Ryman Auditorium seats about 2300 folks and it is a former church, so everyone sits in pews either on the main floor or in the mezzanine. My seat was on the main floor, towards the right, in [...]

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