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— 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:

— Scratching poems on cell floors, or making ink from the brick powder of the walls, Burmese writers have managed to continue writing despite imprisonment and censorship —

— Haiku Poet Documented Life in Japanese Camps —

— To write vital poems, Notley has said, “it’s necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against … everything.” [...]

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Poetry News:

One cannot overstate the synergistic impact of Fuller and Emerson, nor the importance of Transcendentalism to the fundamental concepts of American self-reliance and individualism —

He strongly objected to actors reading poetry, and believed that only poets should read poetry —

Rejection. And then what? —

The sign paying tribute to poet Langston Hughes [...]

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Poetry News:

Western Maryland literary journal debuts —

Creativity, Learned or Innate? —

Only the poets know what they”™re writing about and the rest of us have to guess —

Ratio of male to female writers in national ‘general interest’ magazines —

Night owls are more creative —

Letters to the legend of love —

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… but having poetry books around is actively harmful by about the same amount (-.07) [pdf abstract]
Myers noted that even large literary magazines are struggling
Portland Woman Maine’s New Poet Laureate
Religious writer receives Guggenheim Fellowship for prose, poetry
Remembering Audre Lorde
Panel discusses link between art, insanity

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Well I’m disturbed. Lots of stuff to be disturbed about these days, eh? the Great Lakes [are] ice-free in the middle of winter (NYT requires bug me not) I have a picture of me and Darryl from 1988 and we are standing on frozen Saginaw Bay.

Al-Askariya shrine

Forensic experts claim to have proved a bust and [...]

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