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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:

— We’ve published some poetry, even though we both know you may as well be setting fire to hundred-dollar bills —

— Bradfield delivers her bruised truths through a quiet honesty that stands in ardent defense of mainstream normative expectations —

— Gov. Pawlenty names Robert Bly Minnesota’s first official poet laureate —

— So you’d look [...]

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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:

— The second part of this post is about my impression of the role that some phantasmatic nightmare image of AWP plays in the imaginations of many participants in the various online poetry worlds —

— The poet laureate talks about how he’s not enamored of nature, his vote in the New Hampshire primary and [...]

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Poetry News:

— ‘Birmingham, 1963′ captures the heartbreak of Alabama church bombing [also see this] —

— The Index Kings —

— In the cycle of new and old, fresh and familiar, there’s something exciting, but also a little grotesque —

— Homeless, blind and dressed like a Viking, Moondog was one of New York’s most famous eccentrics - [...]

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Poetry News:

— Shackled Magazine Editors Harm Literature; Says Tom Masson, Who Deplores the Ownership of Magazines by Brokers and Soap-Makers Who Make “Hired Men” Editors - By Joyce Kilmer. —

— Nazi Claim May Thwart Bukowski Landmark —

— Argentine poet Juan Gelman wins Spain’s prestigious Cervantes Prize —

— Visual artist Ann Hamilton and poet Henri Cole, [...]

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Poetry News:

— How Does the New Poetry Differ from the Old?; Amy Lowell Laments the Lack of Authoritative Criticism in America — Says No One Should Make a Living by Writing — By Joyce Kilmer —

— it’s impossible not to ask some hard questions about his status and whether it is deserved —

— In a [...]

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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:

— I think that is a hilarious ad campaign —

— Saving Bukowski’s Bungalow —

— Local artist’s Jarrell portrait finds famed venue —

— Books on tools, trains and ranching are among the most sought after titles in the US, a new report reveals —

— Tess Gallagher: living proof of the power of poetry —

— For [...]

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Poetry News:

— “When women stop reading, the novel will be dead” —

— G. C. Waldrep Blood Ruminant [link found here thank you] —

— Woman visits her own heart at exhibition —

— Don’t blame Bukowski for bad poetry —

— A Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of a Sparrow by Noah Eli Gordon —

— John Walsh reports [...]

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Poetry News:

— Shakespeare in Dogpatch - Of sonnets and comic strips [link courtesy afitf thank you] —

— Apartment Complex Where Charles Bukowski Wrote “Post Office” For Sale, Could Be Leveled [link found here thank you] —

— Southern book festival announces authors for this year’s event [we have room for 1 guest if you plan [...]

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Poetry News:

Bukowski would be proud, largely because “Dead” is not a Saturday morning cartoon [link via chez bez thanks] —

Now, 30 years after his death, his work is being published in a new collection —

To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage —

Illinois professor wins $100,000 poetry prize —

All in a [...]

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Poetry News:

Shakespeare has Google Web site

Huntington Library Will Get Bukowski’s Works

Deciphering the Code to Vietnam’s Old Literary Treasures

“I don’t have an end in view besides the making of poems”

‘Cajun’ poem now ‘Cultural’ poem for state

Beyond the McPoem

…nothing like getting a FAX to inform you that you are the new Poet Laureate. Weird.

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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

Tags: Brian Turner, Charles Bukowski, Ezra Pound, Harvey Shapiro, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Rain Taxi, Writing and poetry

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