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E Ethelbert Miller

Poetry News:

— Trying to organize poets is “kind of like trying to organize minnows or something” [there are MP3s linked in the sidebar on the left] —

— A collection of poems by Dan Albergotti, an assistant professor of English at Coastal Carolina University, has been published, a result of his work being selected for the [...]

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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:

— Poets Speak Out —

— We want to believe the omission was related to space and not because city leaders thought it was too gay —

— In 1923, Alfred A. Knopf published the first book of poems by Wallace Stevens —

— Take 20-minute trip to poet’s birthplace —

— The great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova [...]

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Poetry News:

Emory Prof Wins Poetry Pulitzer —

Selections from readings hosted for National Poetry Month 2007, including new poems by Laure-Anne Bosselaar and Elaine Equi [links to MP3] —

Do you walk around with a rainforest in your head? —

Here are the five bestselling poetry books in the US for the week of March [...]

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