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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:

— Shakespeare in Dogpatch - Of sonnets and comic strips [link courtesy afitf thank you] —

— Apartment Complex Where Charles Bukowski Wrote “Post Office” For Sale, Could Be Leveled [link found here thank you] —

— Southern book festival announces authors for this year’s event [we have room for 1 guest if you plan [...]

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Poetry News:

— Berkeley Profs Wrote Some Good Books —

— Lucille Clifton’s truth in poetry has made her the first African-American woman awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize —

— Foldable Book of Poems —

— Literary magazine loses its funding —

— Besty Wergin, R-Princeton, criticized the state government finance bill in a poem [...]

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Poetry News:

Approaching Planet Ishmael Reed, you encounter an upper atmosphere of weighty scholarship, wanton hearsay, rapturous praise and outraged condemnation (bug me not)

Speaking of new poetry, “Legitimate Dangers” offers about 350 poems by 85 poets…according to the book’s subtitle, are American poets of the new century

“A Little White Shadow” is Mary Ruefle’s experiment in “found [...]

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Cummings was studying classics at Harvard by the age of 16, after which he had ‘the time of [his] life’ interned in a French prison camp
Seamus Heaney melds mystic and mythic in verse
The nostalgia sometimes expressed for a vague “old days” when “poetry was popular” neglects the fact that much extremely popular [...]

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