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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:

— New lit mag alert —

— Afghan woman poet Nadia Anjuman remembered two years on —

— TO make one anthology is not necessarily a proof of courage; it may be merely a sign of ignorance. But to dare the wrath of neglected poets and of their friends the critics a second time, is bravery. [...]

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Poetry News:

— A literary magazine editor in high school, Cerf also plans a book on poetry he has written —

— Love to Write? Keep It to Yourself —

— Seattle poet and publishers to receive 2007 American Book Awards —

— Six foot long poem revealed —

— Nevermore: The mystery surrounding the death of Edgar Allan Poe [...]

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Family History of Mary Ziemba Korte
“John and Kathryn Sosinska, my grandparents on my mother’s side of the family, originally came from Germany. That is the farthest back I can remember since no one has recorded any information.
John and Kathryn Sosinska were both born in Germany and lived there in the early 1800’s. On August 3, [...]

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“I had little kids come up to me and hug my legs and say, ‘I love you, Sir Graves.’ And I’d tossle their hair and say (in the voice of Sir Graves), ‘I love you, too.’”
– Lawson Deming
Rest in peace

Tags: detroit, Lawson Deming, Sir Graves, Sir Graves Ghastly

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Poetry News:

Top Tools for Creative (and Working) Writers —

Conference Writers To Visit Chattanooga Schools —

Brooklyn teacher wins Fresno State’s Levine poetry prize —

from now on this aw-shucks style will come with a major stamp of literary approval —

Press Watchdog: Eritrean Government Caused Playwright’s Death —

Peter Markus, Wayne State’s newest writer-in [...]

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Poetry News:

Mary Oliver‘ first book of poems, “No Voyage” (1965), was reviewed in this publication by James Dickey, who dumped all over it [scroll down] —

Let’s start with the concept of non-separation —

Derek Walcott’s Selected Poems confirm him as a master of form —

Wordsmiths share tools —

Annette Allen and the poetry [...]

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Poetry News:

Detroit in two tongues —

Gritty New York poet Eileen Myles struggles with life and work in a shiny, happy city —

English professor compiles American Indian poetry —

Writing, dreaming earn poet top award —

Oscar nod for Canadian animator’s The Danish Poet —

Sometimes one moment of experience, one memory, can epitomize [...]

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley will speak Tuesday, Jan. 23, at Ingram Hall at the Blair School of Music on the Vanderbilt University campus. [more here]

Tags: detroit, Jane Smiley, Nashville

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Burns Night
Burns: the original punk rock people’s poet
Hypergraphia for Poetry in an Epileptic Patient
Turkey: Court drops case against novelist Orhan Pamuk
Beowulf & Grendel
Asahi Haikuist Network

I talked on the phone to my friend Chris in Detroit and I asked her how everything was going up there with the whole we’re-having-the-Superbowl-in-Detroit thing. I could hear her rolling [...]

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