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Poetry News:

— A Poem for the NCAA Basketball Tournament —

— Death, destruction and fear on the streets of cafes, poets and booksellers —

— What he would have us hearken to most closely is not the song the verse-maker spins inside his own head, but the common world’s melody, “the music of what happens” —

— It [...]

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Poetry News:

— Official State Author and Poet Are Named —

— Owners To Open ‘Mystery Room’ Sealed For 50 Years —

— What are your feelings on MFA programs in regard to authors publishing in today’s market? —

— The rubric “poet among painters” does not adequately explain the radical shifts between formal and personal values in O’Hara’s [...]

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Poetry News:

— If you like your poets tortured and doomed, then Alun Lewis (1915-44) is your man —

— A ‘mystical’ experience with two poets —

— The drunken fall of the house of Poe —

— Li-Young Lee has ushered us into 2008 with “Behind My Eyes,” his first collection of poems in seven years [may require [...]

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Poetry News:

— New lit mag alert —

— Afghan woman poet Nadia Anjuman remembered two years on —

— TO make one anthology is not necessarily a proof of courage; it may be merely a sign of ignorance. But to dare the wrath of neglected poets and of their friends the critics a second time, is bravery. [...]

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English professors, students ask lawmakers to reject state poem
Brian Turner, who was an infantry team leader in Iraq, recently reflected on the war-time experiences in his new book of poems
Awarded annually, the scholarship is one of the most prestigious distinctions available to young American poets
George Orwell’s FBI Documents
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