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Poetry News For January 20, 2008

Posted January 20th, 2008 by Jilly Dybka

Poetry News:

— “The Poem of a Life,” Mark Scroggins’s terrific new biography, never strays far from Zukofsky the poet. —

— Over the past 100 years Milton’s standing has declined more steeply than that of any other great English poet —

— City officials see Cornish as a poet of the people, someone who will reach across [...]

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Posted December 11th, 2006 by Jilly Dybka

Poetry News:

Culture and digressions? [link courtesy of large hearted boy] —

Some categories of writing aspire to celebration more than information —

A group of writers has collected more than 800 fading landscape terms in a new book in hopes of keeping them from going extinct. —

Gothic, ambiguous and apparently amoral, The Rime of [...]

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To be enfolded in sapphire wings. Surprising.

Posted January 22nd, 2006 by Jilly Dybka

He was admired by Pound and Kenneth Burke, and often published his own works (requires bug me not)
This poem by Alcman, a pre-classical Greek poet, has the quality of immediacy (requires bug me not)
It’s alleged Hackney bilked would-be writers out of thousands of dollars across the United States
Geoffrey Hill’s latest collection, Without [...]

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