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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:

— Detained poet in hospital with hernia —

— Haikuists are adept at juxtaposing vivid imagery during springtime —

— For the next four days, the area around U Street and Columbia Heights will be buzzing with the presence of poets —

— Stray Questions for: Ishmael Reed —

— Current Finalists for the 20th Annual Lambda Literary [...]

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Poetry News:

— The Paranoiac and the Paris Review —

— The irony of depression is that the pervasive sadness that pierces the heart connects the haikuist to the everyday world of necessity —

— this remarkable, eccentric, and impressionistic family history by our province’s former Poet Laureate —

— He is recurrently snippy about poetry, because poets, indifferent [...]

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Poetry News:

— Barack Obama’s creditable poems are in an erratic tradition of political versifying —

— ‘Lap-sonnets’ for Valentine’s Day —

— When a professor invents a machine that writes books, and then uses that machine to write more than 200,000 different books, there arises the question, “Why?” —

— Sincerity and Its Discontents in American Poetry Now [...]

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Poetry News:

— with its closing lines inscribed on Bishop’s tombstone… —

— One of an avant-garde group called the Neoteric, or “new’’ poets, he lived a short, libidinous life —

— Blogging the AWP —

— Haiku poet aims to preserve seasonal words —

— Richard Newman has spent the past thirteen years working to keep St. Louis’ oldest [...]

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Poetry News:

— Political rhymes: duple meter vs. iambic pentameter —

— the Grand Prize for inspired concept and execution goes to… —

— Joe Torre Haiku Contest —

— Poet awarded $75,000 fellowship —

— This lies at the very heart of Ted Hughes’s vision of life, and made him a much more appropriate laureate for the Thatcher years [...]

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Poetry News:

— Robert and Jean Hollander have just completed a beautiful translation of the astonishing fourteenth-century poem —

— PBS transforms downtown New Bedford into Walt Whitman’s America —

— The Poets.org Poetcast: Charles Simic goes to the planetarium [links to MP3] —

— Baseball has long been the sport with the strongest literary heritage —

— ** Enter [...]

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Poetry News:

— One of America’s most respected literary magazines”Virginia Quarterly Review … is teaming up with the University of Georgia Press … to bring out a new series of poetry books [thanks Claudia C. for the info] —

— Make Bush Name 10 American Poets: Memo to Endowment Head Gioia —

— On poetry and sorrows: [...]

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Poetry News:

— ‘Penelopiad’ Opens on Stage —

— What makes Stevens tough to interpret is his unique diction, which is a mixture of the hymn, the ornate and the bizarre —

— Inductee Sanders turns poetic —

— In the 1960s, Amiri Baraka converted from Greenwich Village Beat poet to Harlem agitator, influencing a generation of young black [...]

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Poetry News:

— Website prods poets to seek their 15 minutes of creativity —

— Maria Rundell taught her readers how to cook a goose, brew beer, make ink and cure baldness —

— Novelist, playwright, and poet H. Gregor Lafferty, 41, announced Monday his plan to use water as a metaphor —

— Asahi Haikuist Network —

— Consider [...]

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Poetry News:

— Sometimes life goes on happening at such a rate that we lose track of ourselves, then, when faced with what we have become, we find ourselves unrecognisable —

— join[ing] the rare company of living authors whose life’s work is enshrined in the Library of America —

— she wants to show how the west [...]

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Poetry News:

Poet, Mother, Editor, Wife —

A new Selected Poems from a long-established, much-honored poet provides a new generation of readers with the opportunity to scan a career —

poetry auction for the Frank Sherlock emergency fund —

For an episode in the delightfully cantankerous relationship between Gertrude Stein and her brother … —

Poet [...]

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Poetry News:

MSN-Mainichi Daily News: Haiku —

Free-market poets’ economy of words —

Oh, did you miss the usual National Poetry Month tidbit? —

Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987, Joseph Brodsky was recognized in his lifetime as one of Russia’s great modern poets —

Pigs pollute park named after poet —

Versions of [...]

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I have a haiku online at the Mainichi Daily News in Tokyo. (I didn’t even know. I just surfed there on my periodic haiku meanderings.) Part of my quest to create a poem with the fewest words (7 this time) … speaking of which …
{edit oops it’s 6}
Poetry News:

Princeton H.S. official resigns over [...]

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