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Poetry News:

— If you didn’t browse the comments when I posted about M.F.A. programs last month, you really should: they veered quickly and entertainingly toward gang warfare, with the Crips arguing against such programs and the Bloods arguing for them —

— Mary Oliver’s ‘work is loving the world’ —

— Strip —

— A sheaf of post-April [...]

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Poetry News:

— You’re saying to the world, this is how I want to be read, this is how I want to be seen, and those are hard decisions to make —

— Poetry in Motion, Thanks to YouTube —

— The 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were awarded Friday evening, April 25, 2008, at UCLA’s Royce [...]

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Link to an article.
Looks like I’ll have to update my Poets Laureate map pretty soon.

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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:

— In ‘‘Elegy,’’ poet Mary Jo Bang has taken on one of the largest and most difficult subjects in all of literature —

— National Book Critics Circle finalists —

— John Milton: the poet who gave us ‘Star Trek’ and ‘The Matrix’ —

— Former poet laureate opening another chapter in his life —

— How lovely [...]

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Poetry News:

— Liam O’Gallagher, 90, a Beat Avant-Gardist and Teacher, Dies —

— The question of whether literary writing can be taught seems to have been decided, at least in North America, by the sheer number of creative writing grads
— Borges and the Foreseeable Future —

— A founding co-editor of the journal L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, he [...]

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Poetry News:

— Charles Simic Takes Your Questions on Poetry [link found here thank you] —

— In 1923, after falling in love with a blond, blue eyed sailor, Hart Crane wrote his most ambitious poem to date —

— Kay Ryan rises to the top despite her refusal to compromise —

— I sure do love poems by [...]

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Poetry News:

— “That letters, words and sentences are all involved in reading is nothing new, but finding that their contributions to reading rate is additive is startling” —

— Borges and Lowell —

— Shhh, the ‘poetry librarian’ is in town —

— Eight Poems by Pierre Reverdy —

— English literature, as we know it, begins with the [...]

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Poetry News:

— The way to become a poetry lover, according to the next U.S. poet laureate, Charles Simic … [and more: Politics and the Poet Laureate link found here thank you] —

— Poetry is not a populist enterprise. When it matters at all, it’s the opposite of populist. [link found here thank you] —

— [...]

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Charles Simic, Surrealist With Dark View, Is Named Poet Laureate

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Poetry News:

Lannan Podcasts - B.H Fairchild with R.S. Gwynn [link goes to a web page not a sound file] —

Lannan Podcasts - Charles Simic with David Lehman [link goes to a web page not a sound file] —

Sasha Dugdale assesses the poets who made the shortlist of her exercise on dramatic poetry — [...]

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Poetry News:

Banned in Akron —

Midpoint by Charles Simic —

Reading Wright‘ poetry, it‘ easy to understand the poet‘ sympathy with Stevens —

Speculator snaps up poets”™ house —

Poet peppers readings with blues harmonica wailings —

The Hemingway Effect, From Recent Battlefields —

Ginger has a very generous offer for those of you who [...]

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