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Poetry News:

— What is the state of poetry in our culture today? —

— Her literary journey has taken her through books and journals across the country —

— Poetry soothes a vulnerable soul —

— Dr Johnson found him too lofty, TS Eliot said he wasn’t serious enough —

— From the author of “The Savage Detectives,” a [...]

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Poetry News:

— Online Bronx magazine taking shape —

— A 17-year-old boy who had once worked as a kitchen aide at Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf campus recognized the remote farmhouse’s potential for parties —

— T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound were the “Odd Couple” of 20th-century poetry —

— Tuesday marks the 163rd anniversary of the publication [...]

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Poetry News:

— Though still a student at Lincoln University, he has already published two books of poems, The Weary Blues and Fine Clothes to the Jew —

— Prize-Winning Poet Robert Hass On American Poetry, Bob Dylan, Impact of ‘The Big Lebowski’ —

— Singing the songs of love —

— Anne Stevenson: the secret life of a [...]

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Poetry News:

— THE inevitable paradox has occurred. Futurism is a thing of the past. Vorticism has come —

— Old Possum’s Book of Practical Lolcats —

— Remembering fallen poet John Partida —

— The Liberty Loan pawnshop in Chelsea was the subject of Martin Espada’s poem ‘Latin Night at the Pawnshop’ —

— He has booked Moscow’s Olimpiisky [...]

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Poetry News:

Professor Inducted as Kentucky Poet Laureate —

English journalist James Fenton gets the gold —

Ezra Pound Poetry Recordings on PennSound: Digital Archive —

English professor wins poetry contest —

University Creates New Poetics Chair —

UCSC literature professor Nathaniel Mackey has been named a winner in the 26th Annual Northern California Book Awards [...]

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Poetry News:

Defection probe over poet Auden —

UNM English Emeritus Professor Frumkin Dies —

Uncovering Ezra Pound’s roots —

The Cat’s 50! —

Shuson a poet married to his muse —

Jagged rhythms —

March 3, 2007 total lunar eclipse & Viewer’s Guide: Total Lunar Eclipse Saturday Evening
Google Trends for “poetry” and Google Trends [...]

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Poet Harvey Shapiro, bard of New York
Alumnus Brian Turner receives Northern California Book Award
Economists have usually been terrified of sticking their necks out on literary matters
Dillon filling shoes of boozing poet in ‘Factotum’
2006 Wallace Stegner Fellows named

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Poetry for the common man
Poet: Felt unfit as laureate
Letter, Ernest Hemingway to Archibald MacLeish discussing Ezra Pound’s mental health and other literary matters
The poem went undelivered, however, because the sun’s glare upon the snow-covered ground blinded Frost from seeing his text
A Cemetery of Poets Is in Crisis in Rome (requires bug me not)
Muriel Rukeyser’s [...]

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