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Elizabeth Bishop

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— There is little that can make us as acutely conscious of the fact that we are still alive as being shown the body of someone who is dead —

— Start a Notebook on Poets.org - 30 Ways To Celebrate National Poetry Month —

— “if anything the poem and video are poking fun at [...]

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Poetry News:

— If birds come from something as bizarre as a smooth ovoid container with no exit or entry, then it’s not too far of a stretch to imagine that the backbone of a corpse becomes a snake —

— WordPlay - WPVM: Celebrating Jonathan Williams [links to MP3] —

— 2008 National Magazine Award Finalists —

— [...]

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Poetry News:

— With passion, precise imagery, astute description, the well-traveled poet covers a lot of ground —

— Some say that if we make a space for the person we wish for, then that spot may be suitably filled —

— As T. S. Eliot once remarked, we cannot say where technique begins or where it ends [...]

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Poetry News:

— Power Crazy Senior General Than Shwe: A chapbook edited by A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz —

— Are we all clear on what a chapbook is? —

— Taslima’s visa extended —

— Elizabeth Bishop’s Writings Collected in New Volume [with audio & video] —

— Upcoming exhibition: Notre Livre: À toute épreuve. A Collaboration between Joan [...]

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Poetry News:

— Piper Center’s Jensen finds poetry success [congrats] —

— Poet, novelist Judson Mitcham to read from work at Vanderbilt; Author of A Little Salvation and Sabbath Creek —

— Accessibility cuts two ways in poetry —

— Maker of occasions and fashioner of thin books that Bishop was, I wonder how she would greet the publication [...]

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Poetry News:

— The second part of this post is about my impression of the role that some phantasmatic nightmare image of AWP plays in the imaginations of many participants in the various online poetry worlds —

— The poet laureate talks about how he’s not enamored of nature, his vote in the New Hampshire primary and [...]

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Poetry News:

— with its closing lines inscribed on Bishop’s tombstone… —

— One of an avant-garde group called the Neoteric, or “new’’ poets, he lived a short, libidinous life —

— Blogging the AWP —

— Haiku poet aims to preserve seasonal words —

— Richard Newman has spent the past thirteen years working to keep St. Louis’ oldest [...]

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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:

— Blogs versus Print: is there a prejudice? [and more, kinda, about the legitimacy of blogging.] —

— Elizabeth Bishop, in her early 20s, doing cart-wheels across the field at the farm —

— English Professor Sets Poetry Wheels in Motion for Luzerne County Residents —

— Poet Cathal O’Searcaigh wins €20,000 literary prize —

— Anna Akhmatova’s [...]

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Poetry News:

— Sometimes, he keeps his musing, vernacular voice so moderate in tone that the writing reminds me of a baseball term for certain pitchers, “sneaky fast” —

— Conjugated Visits by Diane Kirsten Martin —

— Truro hosts exhibit on poet Elizabeth Bishop —

— best known for his poem “Over the Hill to the Poor House” [...]

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Poetry News:

Gwendolyn Brooks Captures Chicago ‘Cool’ —

Elizabeth Bishop’s Christian sin —

Who Gives Away Books Online? “Scabs,” Says Prominent Sci-Fi Writer —

2007 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters, Drama and Music —

Irish poet Eavan Boland turns to “the charged spaces in which people live ….” —

Egypt cleric sues poet for comparing God to [...]

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Poetry News:

Patti Smith’s stars align —

Emory Buys Poet’s Love Letters —

I couldn’t believe it. It was like writing a letter. —

Outsider’s 52 cantos go the distance to take poetry title from Heaney —

Three worthy literary/arts journals have released new issues recently —

Hear poems read by the nominees of one of [...]

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Jimi Hendrix spent a lot of time in the Nashville area when he was stationed in the Army at Ft Campbell. Billy Cox (bass player for Band of Gypsys) lives here. He and Buddy Miles (Band of Gypsys drummer) have a new CD out. (Band of Gypsys Return.) Anyway, here is a video of Jimi [...]

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Elizabeth Bishop: We can read her thoughts, but would she want us to?
There’s no getting away from it, Seamus Heaney is associated with bogs
Poets can submit work for Grolier prize
Thomas Lynch is probably the first American poet to inspire a critically acclaimed television series
Q & A with Baron Wormser
MFA in creative writing at [...]

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