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Emory Prof Wins Poetry Pulitzer —

Selections from readings hosted for National Poetry Month 2007, including new poems by Laure-Anne Bosselaar and Elaine Equi [links to MP3] —

Do you walk around with a rainforest in your head? —

Here are the five bestselling poetry books in the US for the week of March [...]

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Poetry News:

Seems strange that an avant-garde poet lives surrounded by antimacassars and ferns —

Exhibit dedicated to ‘worst poet’ —

Councillor suggests a battle between poet laureates —

Dice-K haiku finalists —

Whishaw to shine as Keats —

Just how much help do you need to write? —

The story behind the pet food [...]

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Poetry News:

At 80, poet’s ‘Hold’ is as strong as ever —

A Poet’s Voice Rises from the Archives —

Louisville publisher spreads the poetic word —

buying and selling bodies was a big market in 18th century France according to poet Leslie Adrienne Miller —

Poetry browser —

Complex characters inhabit this poem-novel —

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Poetry News:

Pills and Lilly’s wills: Prose for National Poetry Month —

St. Louis publisher finds poetic justice in national book award —

Since female poets began bum-rushing the academy midcentury, claiming their right to discuss these formerly taboo subjects, there has been a flood of smart, morbid, searching, sometimes outrageous writing on maternity —

His [...]

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Poetry News:

English professor Veronica Schuder’s freshmen have taken a unique approach to the concept of service learning by displaying poetry in a major traffic zone —

Berkeley event celebrates the book as a work of visual, as well as literary, art —

‘Who charted / this anxious mappemonde,” asks John Ashbery —

Is it something [...]

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Poetry News:

“formal” can be found near “formaldehyde” in the dictionary, he jokes —

A poem can enact that process of filling in the emotional meaning —

Questions for John Ashbery:
Well Versed —

Susan Wicks’s De-iced struggles to escape the spectre of the creative writing colony —

What makes a good writer? —

Darnell Arnoult’s [...]

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Poet’s misspelled slab to go
A poet laureate of the people: Newsom taps Jack Hirschman to ‘challenge the status quo’
Yeats treasures to go on display

Patti Smith, Meet Sylvia Plath
Grant will fund book on tormented poet

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