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Poetry News:

— Poet and short story writer Grace Paley, a literary eminence and old-fashioned rebel who described herself as a “combative pacifist,” has died (and NYT) —

— Fatwa offers unlimited money to kill Taslima —

— Remembering Liam Rector —

— Out of this has come a small industry in creative writing courses —

— We Need Models [...]

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Poetry News:

— Writing tops poll of ideal jobs —

— Prolific poet was a gracious critic —

— Mary Jo Salter and Brad Leithauser, a couple with individual success, will write the next chapter of Hopkins’ Writing Seminars —

— Conversation With a Poet Laureate —

— Rare Anne Spencer collection headed to UVa —

— Renowned poet and Tennessee [...]

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Poetry News:

— A parting of the ways in poetry —

— On March 2, 1952, Guest was named Michigan’s first poet laureate —

— Waldman is pleased that Walter Salles will direct the movie version —

— Millay was a national celebrity, and her readings would outdraw Robert Frost‘ —

— The Wounded Angel, 1903, by Amanda Auchter (congrats [...]

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Poetry News:

— ‘Penelopiad’ Opens on Stage —

— What makes Stevens tough to interpret is his unique diction, which is a mixture of the hymn, the ornate and the bizarre —

— Inductee Sanders turns poetic —

— In the 1960s, Amiri Baraka converted from Greenwich Village Beat poet to Harlem agitator, influencing a generation of young black [...]

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Poetry News:

— Poet laureate finds rhyme and reason in ordinary life —

— Prostitutes are target audience for India’s latest magazine —

— Love him or loathe him, William McGonagall is a Scottish literary legend —

— The Diameter of the Bomb by Yehuda Amichai —

— The Lost Poems of Joe Dimaggio —

— Why literary blogging won’t save [...]

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Poetry News:

— Day Six: Penguin Publisher, Expert, Enliven Parker Copyright Trial —

— the average salary in publishing remains relatively meager compared to other professions, especially for women —

— his poems are no less for this; we must each find our own language —

— It wasn”™t until the mid-1840s that limericks became popular —

— The first [...]

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Poetry News:

— Seamus Heaney’s new book “¦ is sold out before most people have even heard about it —

— Poet Christopher Buckley Wins Guggenheim after 20 years of Trying —

— In Berry tribute, authors explore influence of writer who loves the land —

— Harborview lets poetry do some of the healing —

— When a new [...]

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Poetry News:

— Poems about Aliens —

— The power and the passion: letters from great names sell for millions —

— A poet whose work draws on everything from astrophysics to household chores has been appointed Vermont’s new state poet —

— Egad! Poetry and the grammarian —

— ‘Operation Homecoming’: The Writings of War —

— Once upon a [...]

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Poetry News:

— Nazek Al Malaika, famous as the first to write Arabic poetry in free verse rather than classical rhyme —

— Seattle schools say girls tennis coach wasn’t fired —

— Futurism did the same, and the fallout from its image-derived concrete poetry on these shores led to Vorticism, which in turn … —

— What does [...]

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Poetry News:

— Civil War era poem could go to National Archives —

— Over an Open Mike, Young Voices Speak in Verse —

— Poems of atrocity, and of joyfully Americanizing —

— “Poetry has little or no effect on me” —

— TO. THE. ONLIE. BEGETTER. OF. THESE. INSUING. SONNETS, MR. W.H. —

— In fact, despite what the [...]

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Poetry News:

— How the Y Chromosome Resulted in the Worst Reviews of Lucinda Williams’ Career —

— War poet’s last love letter sent from Gallipoli —

— Who’s who of Canadian literary scene turn out for poetry’s biggest night —

— On a Corner, a Shutter Clicks as Poets and Punks Pass in Review —

— Publishers Warm to [...]

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Poetry News:

— Her forum seeks to spark poetry, introduce poets to others’ work —

— Today we bring the Bard up to date —

— As it turns out, the rock-as-poetry movement has not vanished along with the LP —

— Fifty years ago this week, a bookshop assistant was arrested for ‘peddling’ obscene literature —

— An old, [...]

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Poetry News:

— We often adopt our car as an extension of our ego, while at the same time imbuing it with the power to know where the road is —

— Foetry.com has closed —

— … this it will do by performing an unprecedented poetic act …. it will “bounce” a poem off the Moon [...]

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Poetry News:

— If No One Can Find My Book, Does It Exist? —
— Children’s Poet Laureate Speaks of Food Fights and Sports –
— Genius? Idiot? Poetry-world provocateur Jim Behrle likes Ginsberg and acrylic poo [link thanks to Gina's blog a sad day for sad birds] —
— The Little Magazine That Could —
— Former British PM [...]

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