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Poetry News:

— Catherine Breese Davis wrote of loss, abandonment, destitution, despair and decrepitude—and she knew what she was talking about —

— Between Poetry and Performance, a Film Finds a Rocker’s Heart —

— A Voice Poetry Roundup: From half-baked utopias to diabetic bitches —

— But if no one likes to read poetry — or so it [...]

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Poetry News:

— If you like your poets tortured and doomed, then Alun Lewis (1915-44) is your man —

— A ‘mystical’ experience with two poets —

— The drunken fall of the house of Poe —

— Li-Young Lee has ushered us into 2008 with “Behind My Eyes,” his first collection of poems in seven years [may require [...]

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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:

— Spent 22 Years Collecting 15,000 Similes; Frank J. Wilstach’s Ardent and Relentless Hunt for This Elusive Figure of Speech Results in a Remarkable Collection - By Joyce Kilmer [book is at Google books] —

— The Totality of Causes: Li-Young Lee and Tina Chang in Conversation —

— “Jennifer L. Knox is pure magic.” —

— [...]

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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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