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Franz Wright

Poetry News:

— Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has arrived in Europe to begin a new life, reports say, after protests by Muslim groups forced her into hiding in India. —

— The Polish Immigrant, by Peter Skrzynecki —

— Despite T.S. Eliot’s doubts that the traditional sonnet could figure importantly in modern poetry, it thrives to this day [...]

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Poetry News:

Does poetry still matter? —

But in the early 20th century, a critical revolution led by T.S. Eliot helped to put Donne at the center of the English canon —

Virginia Tech’s Professor of Hate —

At the tender age of 15, Franz Wright sent one of his poems to his father —

In [...]

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