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Authors campaign to save Britain’s only gay bookshop —

Longfellow the patriot trumped Longfellow the poet —

celebrate National Poetry Month —

Tagore’s Poem Distorted in Textbooks —

In the second of his reports on Middle East poetry, Jeffrey Brown discusses poetry’s role in Arab society with three leading Palestinian poets —

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Poetry News:

“Otto Frisch Discovers Fission, 1938″ By John Canaday —

Pope pointed out that Shakespeare, Homer and other pre-19th-century writers show numerous characters suffering from other psychiatric disorders —

A Scottish poet imagines the loss of a childhood tongue —

A series of reports from Jeffrey Brown, who travels to the Middle East to provide [...]

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Poetry News:

Poets gather to help a colleague in need —

Jeffrey Levine’s Dorset Prize Dustup —

W. H. Auden‘ poem about casino gamblers is as relevant now as the day he wrote it —

Gov. Jim Douglas and the Vermont Arts Council invite the public to submit nominations for the appointment of a new [...]

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Literary history is full of famous partnerships … but what happens when friendship turns to jealousy —

To a Friend who wished to give me half her sleep by Sara Coleridge —

Since there is a suspicion of poets who write strictly in rhyme, as opposed to Poets-with-a-Capital-P free versers, the bar is set [...]

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