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Christina Rossetti

Poetry News:

— Instead of starting with a blank page, poet Austin Kleon grabs the New York Times and a permanent marker — and eliminates the words he doesn’t need —

— On an unconscious level, this final replication exceeds the early rhyme but also thwarts it when the two sounds become identical (as the mother and [...]

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Poetry News:

— Mail sorter’s poems win $65,000 prize —

— Hopkins’s syntax is so mangled, the lines so packed with heavy plodding accents and stilted comma stops, that he speaks as if through a chokehold —

— A pair of fine collections from Philadelphia poets who fervently put their wanderings to words —

— after the last customer [...]

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