Poetry News:
— The day Thoreau died —
— Sexually explicit poetry forces educator out —
— Dylan’s mystery girl tells it like it was —
— Poetry readers tend to lead active lives, listen to music, read a lot, use the Internet and volunteer at significantly higher rates than non-poetry readers, according to a study looking [...]
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Poetry News:
— The Mainichi Newspapers is inviting participation in the 12th Annual Mainichi Haiku Contest —
— Punk rocker Exene explores a creative space in Missouri —
— DNA Analysis Exposes Fake Schiller Skull —
— “Sort of Gone,” a collection of poems by Sarah Freligh, follows the adventures and misadventures - mostly misadventures - of a ballplayer [...]
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Poetry News:
— Official State Author and Poet Are Named —
— Owners To Open ‘Mystery Room’ Sealed For 50 Years —
— What are your feelings on MFA programs in regard to authors publishing in today’s market? —
— The rubric “poet among painters” does not adequately explain the radical shifts between formal and personal values in O’Hara’s [...]
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Poetry News:
— Spent 22 Years Collecting 15,000 Similes; Frank J. Wilstach’s Ardent and Relentless Hunt for This Elusive Figure of Speech Results in a Remarkable Collection - By Joyce Kilmer [book is at Google books] —
— The Totality of Causes: Li-Young Lee and Tina Chang in Conversation —
— “Jennifer L. Knox is pure magic.” —
— [...]
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1. Toast to Bard is auctioned for £15,800
2. Gary Snyder: James Lovelock’s arguments for nuclear power ‘demented’
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Gary Snyder, James Lovelock, nuclear power, Robert Burns
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1. Eco-Poet Gary Snyder to Read at the Third Biennial Ojai Poetry Festival
2. “In the world of today, which is filled with danger, we need the advice of Hafez more than at any other time, and the poetry of Hafez contains warnings for all nations.”
3. Why do you think people remember poetry more than prose? [...]
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1. The Bard of Lawnboro? Former NPR poet now a muse on local themes.
2. Rock star poets and revolutionary verse the Chinese contingent at the Sydney Writers’ Festival.
3. A closer look at Gary Snyder
The legendary bard on Buddhism, ecology and Kerouac
Tags: Gary Snyder, NPR
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Poetry News:
The writer’s secret is not inspiration ““ for it is never clear where it comes from ““ it is his stubbornness, his patience. That lovely Turkish saying ““ to dig a well with a needle ““ seems to me to have been said with writers in mind. [Orhan Pamuk - 2006 Nobel Lecture] [...]
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