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Poetry News:

— Today’s poem is “An Ode to Drunkenness and Other Criminal Activities” by Rebecca Loudon —

— U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic contributed original verse for the liner, in an appropriate fit between poet and musician —

— New Buk on DVD —

— Online conversation with Stryker brigade poet Brian Turner —

— Al Young took to [...]

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Poetry News:

— I think that you have to go on your nerve—that’s something Frank O’Hara used to say —

— Most critics thought the young Barker a better poet than the young Thomas, and the latter, who called his rival’s poems “masturbatory monologues”, seems to have been madly jealous —

— Definition of poetry splits the literati [...]

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Poetry News:

— How to trivialise women’s poetry —

— elitism is a laughable charge to levy against an art that doesn’t require tickets or a premium cable subscription —

— The antipoem’s burlesque charm hits like a nightstick —

— An interview with poet Mary Jo Salter —

— And I may say, perhaps, I’m happier writing about doctors [...]

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Poetry News:

— The sonnet is a frequently misunderstood form with an enduring appeal. Fancy having a crack at your own ‘little song’? —

— it also cements her reputation as the greatest poet of her generation —

— This sense of freedom is produced by Ashbery’s diction (no American poet has had a larger, more diverse vocabulary, [...]

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Poetry News:

— Unfortunately, poetry in general has a bad reputation —

— new lit mag alert —

— The Griffin Poetry Prize Announces the 2008 Canadian and International Shortlist —

— She did say, though, that her interest in cryptography, the study of coded writing, influenced her poems, along with her love of puzzles —

— Never has so [...]

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Poetry News:

— Poet d.a. levy memorialized in new book —

— Write, stop, pivot, punch —

— But tomorrow is another day that he can enjoy twice, full of bees, birds, and breezes in a beet field —

— Road Scholar Copy Edits America —

— Sinéad Morrissey’s Through the Square Window won the 2007 National Poetry Competition. [...]

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Poetry News:

— A translator from many tongues, she loves a pun, even when mourning a dead pooch —

— Atlanta Sings of Poems Electric, Past and Present —

— What We Miss if We Pass on Poetry (Hint: Not Poems) —

— Langston Hughes, 1902-1967: The Poet Voice of African-Americans —

— Houston poet wins $50,000 award —

— Reed [...]

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Poetry News:

— Scantily Clad e-chaps —

— When James Woolley, Smith Professor of English, discovered a lost manuscript of the 18th century Irish satirist Jonathan Swift, he was met with a jaw-dropping surprise: the poet’s first unpublished poem in centuries —

— “I do not think that more information always makes a richer poem. I am attracted [...]

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Poetry News:

— This poem was written by thirteen-year-old Helen Keller (1880-1968) who, only six years before, was “a wild little creature” —

— new small press alert —

— Byron, Shelley and Miss Havisham —

— MLB Poetry Previews: Boston Red Sox —

— Romantic, Surrealist, clear-as-glass, impenetrable charlatan: Ashbery has been called all of these —

— new lit [...]

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Poetry News:

— The Poetry Center’s American Poetry Archives is one of the most extensive literary collections in the U.S., home to approximately 3,000 original recordings captured at the Poetry Center’s live poetry reading series —

— Man gets suspended term, Frost homework in vandalism case —

— He and his wife, Tibetan poet and essayist Tsering Woeser, [...]

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Poetry News:

— April approacheth, and stalking in its shadow is NAPOWRIMO —

— “It’s always important to have poems that will offend people,” she joked. —

— Exhibition in Petersburg Marks 70th Anniversary since Death of Poet Osip Mandelstam —

— This Saturday she returns to Boston’s Opera House to perform Homeland, an epic poem wrapped in a [...]

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Poetry News:

— Post-apocalypse, Poetry, and Robots —

— Changing Hands Bookstore hosts a handful of acclaimed poets (all female) who contributed to Letters to the World: The Wom-Po Anthology —

— People find what they lack in themselves in this object of adoration —

— Iranian poet Simin Behbahani is the first recipient of Stanford’s Bita Prize for [...]

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Poetry News:

— Does poetry have any real agency in the world? It might not seem so, but poets have made some stirring arguments that it does, —

— Canadians are playing key role in `Books 2.0′ —

— Saying he has a mandate to make poetry more accessible, P.E.I.’s poet laureate has launched a website —

— [...]

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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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