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Poetry News:

— Mail sorter’s poems win $65,000 prize —

— Hopkins’s syntax is so mangled, the lines so packed with heavy plodding accents and stilted comma stops, that he speaks as if through a chokehold —

— A pair of fine collections from Philadelphia poets who fervently put their wanderings to words —

— after the last customer [...]

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Poetry News:

— Why this bevy of bards, this plethora of poetry, this Vesuvian eruption of verse? —

— MLB Poetry Preview: Chicago Cubs —

— My first reaction was, “What are you smoking?” —

— This week, the Academy of American Poets announced the launch of … a mobile poetry archive providing free access to a collection [...]

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Poetry News:

— What is the state of poetry in our culture today? —

— Her literary journey has taken her through books and journals across the country —

— Poetry soothes a vulnerable soul —

— Dr Johnson found him too lofty, TS Eliot said he wasn’t serious enough —

— From the author of “The Savage Detectives,” a [...]

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Poetry News:

— New Pages’ Lit Mag Reviews are Fresh —

— Loss of poet Salinas is loss to literature —

— Nick Drake’s From the Word Go meditates upon a single word —

— Robert Frost, Unplugged, Praised Rich Capitalist Fools, AP Says —

— The polls are open in the annual balloting for the Diagram Prize, honoring [...]

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Poetry News:

— “The Poem of a Life,” Mark Scroggins’s terrific new biography, never strays far from Zukofsky the poet. —

— Over the past 100 years Milton’s standing has declined more steeply than that of any other great English poet —

— City officials see Cornish as a poet of the people, someone who will reach across [...]

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Poetry News:

— Why John Milton sides with the angels —

— Sometimes the prose is pure poetry —

— Poetry workshop: Peter Bennet admires the responses to his exercise on the moonlit world of Walter de la Mare —

— David Trinidad talks with Richard Siken about his fascination with the world of Barbie and the process of [...]

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Poetry News:

— In ‘‘Elegy,’’ poet Mary Jo Bang has taken on one of the largest and most difficult subjects in all of literature —

— National Book Critics Circle finalists —

— John Milton: the poet who gave us ‘Star Trek’ and ‘The Matrix’ —

— Former poet laureate opening another chapter in his life —

— How lovely [...]

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Poetry News:

It‘ God vs. Satan. But What About the Nudity? —

Blake once wrote that “I labour upward towards futurity” —

Mastering complexity is beautiful, a great human pleasure —

Poets’ daughter faces midlife with art —

The 3,000-year-old Epic of Gilgamesh, its unlikely rediscovery, and its echoes in literature and politics —

If you [...]

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Poetry News:

Listen to an exerpt of Helen Vendler’s lecture on the poetry of William Butler Yeats —

For the 58th straight year, a mysterious visitor left birthday cognac and roses at Edgar Allan Poe’s grave —

Literary prize bows to pressure over racial discrimination —

Walker, of Grand Rapids, was the only Michigan resident awarded [...]

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Poetry News:

T.S. Eliot’s Subway Metaphysics —

Poet Samantha Barrow rode cross-country on a mission of mercy —

Phillips receives American poets fellowship —

Drunk’s call to burn mosques was a poem —

In this workshop, I want you to tackle a similarly risky subject which you know will challenge a range of sensitivities, even political [...]

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Poetry News:

Poetaster Squabbling Gets High-Tech —

A big-budget film version of Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost is also in the pipeline —

Academy of American Poets Poetcast #9 (Mp3) Louise Glück reads “Telescope” by telephone, Major Jackson reads “Blunts” in Bryant Park, and Lucie Brock-Broido pairs a poem of her own with a poem by [...]

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