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Poetry News:

— If you didn’t browse the comments when I posted about M.F.A. programs last month, you really should: they veered quickly and entertainingly toward gang warfare, with the Crips arguing against such programs and the Bloods arguing for them —

— Mary Oliver’s ‘work is loving the world’ —

— Strip —

— A sheaf of post-April [...]

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Poetry News:

— With her new novel, Lavinia, fantasy and science fiction virtuoso Ursula K. Le Guin vividly fills some of the blanks in Vergil’s Aeneid —

— “I’m trying to get people to see a book as an aesthetic artifact, not as a generic container,” says Dave Wofford, who operates the one-man letterpress Horse and Buggy [...]

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Poetry News:

— With this collection, Grace Paley ends as she began, as a poet. —

— Lynn Neary speaks with Nigel McLoughlin about his poetry and the Northern Ireland peace process —

— English-language poets are increasingly fascinated with the syllabic forms of Latin, Romance languages and Japanese. Can you write a good syllabic poem? —

— A [...]

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Poetry News:

— Poetry workshop: Try Sean O’Brien’s exercise on poetic dramatisation —

— Brian Turner and Bruce Weigl from Lannan Podcasts by Lannan Foundation [links to MP3] —

— The revival of Cid Corman’s journal Origin reminds me of when international discussion of poetry took place at a slower, more intense, pace —

— One includes “text, pictures, [...]

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Poetry News:

— The Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition by César Vallejo —

— Jane M. Cooper, Faculty Emerita, Helped Create SLC’s Writing Program —

— MFA alumni program at Queens —

— Culture Project Asks ‘Question of Impeachment’ Nov-Dec —

— Rafael Campo rescues language and meaning from politics —

— New lit mag alert —

— In Praise of Online [...]

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Dent’s bewildering talent and uncensored originality are the true forces driving her poems
Sarah Crown applauds Owen Sheers’ second book, Skirrid Hill, a collection that evokes ruptured terrain in taut and coherent verse
Jorie Graham teaches us about the nature of being human with her poetic reflection on war, Overlord, says Fiona Sampson
Janet Frame is generally hailed [...]

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