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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manuscript of the 18th century Irish satirist Jonathan Swift, he was met with a jaw-dropping surprise: the poet’s first unpublished poem in centuries —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:

— It’s also an opportunity to have the kind of immediate relationship with an audience that is all too often unavailable to poets, no matter how well-known they are —

— Book Review The Ghost Soldiers (2008) James Tate —

— Jonathan Williams: 1929-2008 By Jeffery Beam • Special to The Smoky Mountain News —

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Poetry News:

— This poem was written by thirteen-year-old Helen Keller (1880-1968) who, only six years before, was “a wild little creature” —

— new small press alert —

— Byron, Shelley and Miss Havisham —

— MLB Poetry Previews: Boston Red Sox —

— Romantic, Surrealist, clear-as-glass, impenetrable charlatan: Ashbery has been called all of these —

— new lit [...]

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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:

— April approacheth, and stalking in its shadow is NAPOWRIMO —

— “It’s always important to have poems that will offend people,” she joked. —

— Exhibition in Petersburg Marks 70th Anniversary since Death of Poet Osip Mandelstam —

— This Saturday she returns to Boston’s Opera House to perform Homeland, an epic poem wrapped in a [...]

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Poetry News:

— He died from a love of poetry [thanks Lee!] —

— Theater For The New City will present On Naked Soil - Imagining Anna Akhmatova, a new play written and co-starring stage and screen veteran Rebecca Schull —

— Punishing the publisher —

— Stuck for a rhyming scheme? Try the ghazal. It’s wickedly difficult to [...]

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Poetry News:

— A Poem for the NCAA Basketball Tournament —

— Death, destruction and fear on the streets of cafes, poets and booksellers —

— What he would have us hearken to most closely is not the song the verse-maker spins inside his own head, but the common world’s melody, “the music of what happens” —

— It [...]

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Poetry News:

— SERIAL SYSTEM HURTS OUR NOVELS; And Too Many American Writers Want to Own Automobiles, Says George Barr McCutcheon By Joyce Kilmer —

— Song of Herself —

— Robert Hass — Winner 2007 National Book Awards — Poetry —

— How to Win a National Book Award in Five Easy Steps —

— Leading Neuroscientist Seeks Neural [...]

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Poetry News:

— More than 60 years after it was written, George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” remains the classic essay on the relationship between words, truth, propaganda and politics —

— ‘Lyrical Terrorist’ found guilty in British court and ‘Lyrical Terrorist led double life’ and ‘Lyrical terrorist’ convicted for jihad poems —

— Here is another [...]

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Poetry News:

— DIY publishing means most anyone can put out a book ” for better or worse —

— Above, a display containing designs from journals and literary magazines —

— Podcast: Vanderbilt all-star creative writing faculty gives reading —

— We came up with the idea that the Global War on Terror needed its own literary magazine [...]

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Poetry News:

— How ballads created Finland, opera made Belgium, and fairy stories unified Germany —

— A Poet of the Mets Versifies of Gloom [link found here thank you] —

— …that is why Adrienne Rich’s poetry has enduring importance huzzah —

— Leading writers appraise Wendell Berry —

— Shams Skeleton Allegedly Found —

— Paris Hilton: poetry plagiarizer? [...]

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Poetry News:

— Women of the Web interviews —

— Debates over what an educated person should know go back to the 19th century in America, when teaching any literature beyond the Greek and Roman classics was still controversial —

— It‘ a bit like stacking bricks in the dark and hoping that when the light is [...]

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Poetry News:

— The mystery of how we read a sentence has been unlocked by scientists —

— In recent years literary research has come to focus more and more on visual forms, and digital poetry brings to a head this concern with the visual —

— To the Death…May the Best Writer Win —

— Poetcast: September 10th, [...]

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Poetry News:

— MtvU, the subsidiary of MTV Networks that is broadcast only on college campuses, will announce today that it has selected its first poet laureate —

— a poem that considers explicitly the relation between old ways and new generations —

— Meet the many famous poets of modern America —

— The area is best known, [...]

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