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— 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:

— A Poem for the NCAA Basketball Tournament —

— Death, destruction and fear on the streets of cafes, poets and booksellers —

— What he would have us hearken to most closely is not the song the verse-maker spins inside his own head, but the common world’s melody, “the music of what happens” —

— It [...]

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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:

— He was, said his friend William Burroughs, an “inner space explorer”, but the Frenchman remained a solitary figure, outside any artistic grouping, almost the only exponent of his art, and almost certainly the only poet to record sounds and movements by swallowing a microphone —

— Our poet is in a far colder place [...]

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Poetry News:

— Poems about Aliens —

— The power and the passion: letters from great names sell for millions —

— A poet whose work draws on everything from astrophysics to household chores has been appointed Vermont’s new state poet —

— Egad! Poetry and the grammarian —

— ‘Operation Homecoming’: The Writings of War —

— Once upon a [...]

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Poetry News:

— Let’s do it, let’s fall in luff [link via Avoiding the Muse thank you] —

— Here’s a tortoise shell that reminds the poet of a soldier’s helmet and which leads me to a pet hate: computer games —

— A two-century jinx on a potential literary goldmine held true today —

— Galway Kinnell has [...]

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Poetry News:

— Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! —

— The Poets.org Poetcast, featuring poems from Maurice Manning, Mary Karr and Carl Dennis [links to MP3] —

— PennSound is like iTunes for poetry - but each poem is free, said Charles Bernstein —

— literary bodice rippers for a good cause — [...]

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Poetry News:

It‘ God vs. Satan. But What About the Nudity? —

Blake once wrote that “I labour upward towards futurity” —

Mastering complexity is beautiful, a great human pleasure —

Poets’ daughter faces midlife with art —

The 3,000-year-old Epic of Gilgamesh, its unlikely rediscovery, and its echoes in literature and politics —

If you [...]

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Poetry News:

Banned in Akron —

Midpoint by Charles Simic —

Reading Wright‘ poetry, it‘ easy to understand the poet‘ sympathy with Stevens —

Speculator snaps up poets”™ house —

Poet peppers readings with blues harmonica wailings —

The Hemingway Effect, From Recent Battlefields —

Ginger has a very generous offer for those of you who [...]

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Poetry News:

Einstein’s Grandson Comes to Istanbul for Poetry Conference —

Spanish poet Antonio Gamoneda has won the Cervantes Prize —

Committing Poetry in a Time of War —

The plagiarism Furies, idle for a time…have been unloosed again —

Plath daughter puts her pain in poetry —

Woman sentenced in literary scam —

CNET editor [...]

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