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Poetry News:

— The prose poem in California —

— In which I answer questions like: “How do you see lady death?” —

— Trying to get to the core of Dylan Thomas’ Big Apple – and see through the booze —

— What counts as a “personal rejection”? —

— “The Warrior” by Frances Richey is composed of 28 [...]

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Poetry News:

— The lit mags that could —

— GK intros Maxine Kumin, she and GK read her poetry [real audio] —

— There are stereotypes about Sylvia Plath fangirls — that we’re mired in middle-class existential woe —

— In his new collection, Hardheaded Weather: New and Selected Poems, poet Cornelius Eady writes of his transition [...]

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Poetry News:

— The sonnet is a frequently misunderstood form with an enduring appeal. Fancy having a crack at your own ‘little song’? —

— it also cements her reputation as the greatest poet of her generation —

— This sense of freedom is produced by Ashbery’s diction (no American poet has had a larger, more diverse vocabulary, [...]

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Poetry News:

— We cannot be caged by the moment of dying; in dying we are, in effect, set free, even if oblivious —

— Clarke named Wales national poet —

— Amazon Does Damage Control On Its Print-On-Demand Demands
— Elementary students mix poetry, basketball —

— UGA’s Judith Ortiz-Cofer: A Poet Of Many Places —

— The Boston-born [...]

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Poetry News:

— Poetry Chronicle —

— Poems on the frontiers; a lobster lesson on the sea
— Jenny Holzer Makes Light of Poems and Beats Swords Into Paintings —

— Pakistani’s Poem Offers Hope in Despairing Time —

— In ‘Telephone Ringing,’ Adrienne Rich makes music of words —

— Here is Arizona poet Steve Orlen’s lovely tribute to the [...]

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Poetry News:

— The Husband Tries to Write to the Disappearing Wife by Jeannine Hall Gailey [congrats Jeannine] —

— ” … he cut through all the rubbish and I think that should be admired” —

— Art work marks end of poet’s walk —

— Momaday named state’s centennial poet laureate —

— I’d be out playing and I [...]

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1. All the World Still a Stage for Shakespeare’s Timeless Imagination
2. Prison Poet Turns Focus To Learning Life‘ Lessons
3. Much more than a “woman writer”
4. London pubs done write

Tags: Dylan Thomas, john keats, Lord Byron, Poetry, poets, Prison Poet, Robert Lewis Stevenson, shakespeare, Virginia Woolf

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Poetry News:

Poet and teacher Nikki Giovanni uplifts thousands in Blacksburg, Virginia —

Spanish poet Antonio Gamoneda receives Cervantes prize for literature —

Sienna Miller Replaces Lohan In Dylan Thomas Pic —

Love, War and History: Israel’s Yehuda Amichai —

New collections of poetry for kids —

taking a break

Tags: Antonio Gamoneda, Dylan Thomas, Poems, [...]

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Poetry News:

Death of Dylan … ‘a flamboyant, eloquent, Bohemian genius’ —

There were 69 available creative-writing jobs advertised across the nation in October, up from . . . . —

Just six per cent of people UK-wide can confidently sing the Robert Burns favourite —

Forget the gym, flex your poetic muscle instead —

Appalachian [...]

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Poetry News:

For sale: the pub Dylan Thomas called home —

Prof. Meryl Altman Analyzes ‘Sappho’s Lost Session’ in Women’s Review of Books —

Poets can make dead words sing —

You cannot claim to care a fig for poetry unless you have at least a rough idea of what he was about; and his essence [...]

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Poetry News:

Judge throws out charges against Turkish novelist —

£60,000 Dylan award list revealed —

Ancient poetic form meets an age of anomie —

Abysmal alliteration author admired again —

The Shakespeare Wars —

Whose content is it anyway? —

Tags: Dylan Thomas, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Tory Dent

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University of Arkansas Press Publishes Two New Books in Its Poetry Series
Utah poet wrote of his illness, mortality
Review: Anna Of All The Russias
Dylan Thomas film opens Swansea Film Festival
Judge dismisses Google copyright case

This is late but…Happy Birthday Ivy!

Tags: Anna Akhmatova, Dylan Thomas, ee cummings, Google, Ken Brewer

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