Poetry News:
- — This poem was written by thirteen-year-old Helen Keller (1880-1968) who, only six years before, was “a wild little creature” —
- — new small press alert —
- — Byron, Shelley and Miss Havisham —
- — MLB Poetry Previews: Boston Red Sox —
- — Romantic, Surrealist, clear-as-glass, impenetrable charlatan: Ashbery has been called all of these —
- — new lit mag alert —
- — Markov chains appear in everything from mathematics to music to gambling to Google searches, but Allmann decided to put a different spin on the algorithm by feeding it poetry —
- — Beth Ann Fennelly’s best poems are as noisy as a rat in a coffee can —
Could be worse.
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