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Heather McHugh

Poetry News:

— With her new novel, Lavinia, fantasy and science fiction virtuoso Ursula K. Le Guin vividly fills some of the blanks in Vergil’s Aeneid —

— “I’m trying to get people to see a book as an aesthetic artifact, not as a generic container,” says Dave Wofford, who operates the one-man letterpress Horse and Buggy [...]

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Poetry News:

— A translator from many tongues, she loves a pun, even when mourning a dead pooch —

— Atlanta Sings of Poems Electric, Past and Present —

— What We Miss if We Pass on Poetry (Hint: Not Poems) —

— Langston Hughes, 1902-1967: The Poet Voice of African-Americans —

— Houston poet wins $50,000 award —

— Reed [...]

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Poetry News:

Poet McHugh, who teaches at the University of Washington, is one of nine writers named a USA Fellow this year —

It’s often said Australian poetry has fallen on hard times. True, if you think what corporate publishers have stopped doing for poetry; not true once you count the small presses…. —

Misprint Is [...]

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