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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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Poetry News:

— Moving Pictures Have Commercialized Writers; Says Charles Hanson Towne, Poet and Editor, Who No Longer Finds Magazine Editing an Adventure, as It Was Years Ago —

— Reason lives in a haunted house —

— Although her beloved team is not in this year’s World Series, she shares a poem about being at the event [...]

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Poetry News:

— One of America’s most respected literary magazines”Virginia Quarterly Review … is teaming up with the University of Georgia Press … to bring out a new series of poetry books [thanks Claudia C. for the info] —

— Make Bush Name 10 American Poets: Memo to Endowment Head Gioia —

— On poetry and sorrows: [...]

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Poetry News:

— People believing that’s Angelou’s best poem ever, I figured, is justice enough —

— Sekou Sundiata: Defying Labels —

— Bookslut is looking for a columnist and also for a book designer —

— The Impoverishment of American Culture by Dana Gioia —

— Poetry doesn’t make a lot of money, and the quiet time doesn’t mean [...]

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Poetry News:

— How much should a poet be paid per line? —

— Fifty years ago, I suspect that along with Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, and Sandy Koufax, most Americans could have named, at the very least, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg … —

— Rutgers-Newark Offers New MFA Program In Creative Writing —

— “Physicists talk in metaphor [...]

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Poetry News:

The survival of poetry, especially if written before the invention of print, has often been a matter of luck or accident —

Beowulf on Ice —

On poetry, enchantment, and the curse of the gladiators —

Very short doesn’t mean shallow —

The vigorous, meandering notebooks of Robert Frost —

Scribbles to poetry — [...]

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Poetry News:

Legend links lettered olive seashell with Poe’s ‘The Gold Bug’ —

Whatever rejects us only makes us stronger —

In death match, fearless poets spar but haiku lives —

Dickinson’s path intrigues to this day —

Poets discuss the works they’re reading for inspiration or diversion —

Dark horse chosen for Commencement —

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Poetry for the common man
Poet: Felt unfit as laureate
Letter, Ernest Hemingway to Archibald MacLeish discussing Ezra Pound’s mental health and other literary matters
The poem went undelivered, however, because the sun’s glare upon the snow-covered ground blinded Frost from seeing his text
A Cemetery of Poets Is in Crisis in Rome (requires bug me not)
Muriel Rukeyser’s [...]

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