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Poetry News:

— It may be argued, then, that Plath’s “lasting achievement” was her ability to combine the personal and the mythical in her poetry, thereby endowing this with a timeless and “relevant” literary effect —

— A Russian Poet Unpeels Her Many Lives —

— Rare Emily Dickinson photo(?) purchased on Ebay —

— Intelligence And Rhythmic Accuracy [...]

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Poetry News:

— awwww … congrats —

— Clark has become one of poetry’s most prolific and influential book designers —

— Poetic licence required… —

— Stanford celebrates Emily Dickinson’s legacy with three free events —

— its advice on fashion, bodies and morals gives rise, in Compton’s hands, to quirky but politically pointed verse —

— What’s in [...]

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Poetry News:

— When she died a spinster of 55 in 1886 only five of her poems had been published, all anonymously —

— Woman nicknamed ‘lyrical terrorist’ escapes jail sentence —

— Made in Chicago: Wickedpen [ congrats ] —

— He is often poised discomfortingly and achingly between emotional immediacy and wiseass —

— Poet Maya Angelou’s [...]

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Poetry News:

— Five years after Ruth Lilly’s $100 million gift to the Poetry Foundation, a mixed verdict —

— Singer gives Dickinson’s verse a new voice —

— Big brother is reading your poetry —

— University of Arkansas Press Poetry Book Wins Virginia Literary Award —

— Long-lost Blake watercolours shown for 1st time —

— William Matthews Birthday [...]

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Poetry News:

— Paul Guest, a poet who teaches at West Georgia, will be in New York Wednesday to accept the prestigious $50,000 Whiting Prize and Whiting Award Winners Announced — [congrats]

— Indian politician and wife jailed for murder plot against Hindu poetess —

— Solitary Woman in a Glass House: Visual Translations [...]

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Poetry News:

Student discharged from Marines after essay —

Museum celebrates poet’s dog —

From punk poet to cover girl —

Houdini died in Detroit, but he lives in poetry —

Cut-and-paste poetry —

Cecil Day-Lewis had an appetite for women that hurt his wives but inspired his poetry —

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Poetry News:

Poetic attention gives the circumstances of a moment in one life some of the enduring qualities of myth —

Equi is a poet of transformations, exploring the pathway linking inner and outer worlds, dream life and lived life, heart and mind —

“Dazzled” by both men‘ achievements (and even though Eliot mocked her in [...]

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Poetry News:

PBS’ NewsHour spotlighted the poetry of the Middle East … with reflections on Israeli poets —

Poet Loses Free-Speech Case —

Fence journal moves to Writers Institute —

Modernising the house that TS Eliot built —

The Poem as Comic Strip #2 —

From West Hell to East Jesus with Kevin Young — [...]

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Poetry News:

Emily Dickinson Rendered —

The chink in his armour —

Rare Books’ Auction Is A Best Seller —

Her father’s voice —

Jane Gentry Vance, longtime teacher and poet, has been named Kentucky’s new poet laureate —

Indeed, The New Yorker now treats poetry almost exactly as Goodyear suggests the Poetry Foundation does ” [...]

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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 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:

Eleanor Lerman’s poems have sociological savvy, philosophical rue, historical recognition and vernacular resilience [link courtesy of the page] —

Writers establish literary press based in Rome [Georgia] [the U.S. state] [not the country of Georgia] [nor the capital of Italy] —

Adam Mickiewicz, the national poet of Poland, was born in Kaldceuskaje Zavossõe Zaosiye [...]

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Son’s illness fosters mother’s love of poetry
Jack Gilbert: Notes from a Well-Observed Life
Poet takes to business with a passion
Working the graveyard shift with Emily Dickinson

In the 1950s, the term concrete poetry was coined…

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I have a poem in the new issue of Elysian Fields Quarterly.

Control, creativity meld in poet’s mist of artistry
Emotions, communities, even languages pair for gay poet
Iain Sharp talks to a young New Zealand writer who has been hailed as a genius
Finding faith doesn’t blunt Karr’s poems
Poems of farm, factory, and going forth
Barbara Guest, Pioneering Poet [...]

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