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Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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:

— Poetry Chronicle —

— Poems on the frontiers; a lobster lesson on the sea
— Jenny Holzer Makes Light of Poems and Beats Swords Into Paintings —

— Pakistani’s Poem Offers Hope in Despairing Time —

— In ‘Telephone Ringing,’ Adrienne Rich makes music of words —

— Here is Arizona poet Steve Orlen’s lovely tribute to the [...]

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Poetry News:

— In a sequence about T.S. Eliot in California with his love interest Emily Hale, the couple visits the In-N-Out hamburger chain —

— At the point where one stage of our lives draws to a close and we are about to enter the next stage, there is always room for the hope of great [...]

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Poetry News:

— Statue Brings Exiled Russian Writer Home —

— Beat poet Ferlinghetti’s art gets yanked from S.F. building lobby —

— Squandermania is ambitious, referential, musically brooding in lofty vocabulary, ironic regret and lament without sentimentality —

— A second NPT documentary, funded in part by the Metro Arts Commission, will explore the contributions of the legendary [...]

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Poetry News:

The use of haiku, with its uncanny capacity to encapsulate an instant, seems ” oddly ” confined to baseball —

This image comes not from some poet’s overwrought fantasy but from a news story —

Why devote oneself to that aggressively minor genre, poetry … —

Magazine off to flying start —

He [the [...]

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Poetry News:

Too Cool for School(s) —

In the civil liberties room, the US national anthem, “The Star Spangled Banner,” is heard as Ferlinghetti reads —

Imagine a literary version of the Jen, Brad and Angelina love triangle —

top 10 women poets in honour of International Women’s Day —

The notion that insomnia might have [...]

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Poetry News:

The writer’s secret is not inspiration ““ for it is never clear where it comes from ““ it is his stubbornness, his patience. That lovely Turkish saying ““ to dig a well with a needle ““ seems to me to have been said with writers in mind. [Orhan Pamuk - 2006 Nobel Lecture] [...]

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Poetry News:

Jonson calls rhyme “lazy thou” — and relishing the paradox, he denounces the despised device in rhyming lines —

Poet Ferlinghetti chased subs in WWII —

Not sure what is going on at Tupelo Press? —

New collection of poetry by lesbian author explores the staggering power of grief —

‘If music be the [...]

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Politically Aware ‘Beowulfs’ Miss an Ancient Delight: Terror (bug me not)

Mariela Griffor begins a new chapter with Marick Press

Welsh poet invented an ‘S’ in his initials

Authors Take a New Approach to Audio Books: Do It Yourself (bug me not)

Half a century on, Ferlinghetti, now 87, remains a formidable and influential figure on the literary and [...]

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Random fact about me #1: I have never paid more than $2500 for a car.
For the first 5 years of my adult life I was a musician. == broke
Then I married a musician. == broke
Then I was a student, married to a musician. == even more broke
Then I got an MFA and student loans, married [...]

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Thanks to Michael over at Stick Poet Super Hero for pointing out that link about Valentine’s Day. Hope you had a good one. I got chocolate. And dinner whenever we can get our schedules straight. Kind of the downside of being married to a jazz musician I guess. He works nights.

Are We [...]

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