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Poetry News:

— Susan Howe whispers the netherworld [mp3] —

— Violet de Cristoforo, 90; California haiku poet survived WWII internment camps —

— This poem is as sexy as a soft-porn script —

— This very special baseball program of SELECTED SHORTS includes stories, memoirs, and poems that celebrate the national game [mp3] —

— how the structure [...]

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Poetry News:

— Poetry as Right-Hemispheric Language —

— “There certainly isn”™t enough genuine talent for us to take notice” —

— Poet John Donne was a compulsive conceit practitioner —

— The correspondence started after Schillaci submitted poems for publication in a now-defunct University of New Hampshire literary magazine —

— This remarkable true story is recounted in a [...]

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Poetry News:

Does poetry still matter? —

But in the early 20th century, a critical revolution led by T.S. Eliot helped to put Donne at the center of the English canon —

Virginia Tech’s Professor of Hate —

At the tender age of 15, Franz Wright sent one of his poems to his father —

In [...]

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Poetry News:

Defection probe over poet Auden —

UNM English Emeritus Professor Frumkin Dies —

Uncovering Ezra Pound’s roots —

The Cat’s 50! —

Shuson a poet married to his muse —

Jagged rhythms —

March 3, 2007 total lunar eclipse & Viewer’s Guide: Total Lunar Eclipse Saturday Evening
Google Trends for “poetry” and Google Trends [...]

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The mythmaker
Lambda Literary Awards announced
Luandino Vieira Declines Camoes Literary Award
New Issue of Pleiades Magazine Hits the Streets
Donne portrait saved for nation

Tags: A.V. Christie, John Donne, Lambda Literary Awards, Luandino Vieira, Pleiades, Poetry, Poetry News, poetry writing, poets, Seamus Heaney

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Poetry on the Web by Daisy Fried (essay)
Rejected Marketing Slogans for National Poetry Month thanks Emily this made me laugh
Poet launches lawsuit
Only £56,000 More Before NPG Can Buy John Donne Portrait
Nothing Changes Poetry
Creativity is encouraged in the form of rhyming entries, such as poems or limericks

Hmm. I might have to take a [...]

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Is poetry the new Prozac?
Google Free to Cache: Court
The long road to Plath
Gallery’s £1.6m appeal for Donne
Prestigious book awards to be judged by peers
How much tragedy in Literature Lost?
“Two for the Montrose Drive-In” By Rita Dove

Notes On Donald Justice, The Study Of Prosody, & The Collected Poems: A Donald Justice Primer (Part I Of [...]

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