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Poetry News:

— Some of his latest readings include the collected works of American poet Robert Creeley and poet Lyn Hejinian’s book “My Life.” —

— American Ghazals —

— Hickory poet Scott Owens will have his third chapbook of poems published online in April by the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature —

— A copy of a [...]

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Poetry News:

— The second part of this post is about my impression of the role that some phantasmatic nightmare image of AWP plays in the imaginations of many participants in the various online poetry worlds —

— The poet laureate talks about how he’s not enamored of nature, his vote in the New Hampshire primary and [...]

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Poetry News:

— Online Bronx magazine taking shape —

— A 17-year-old boy who had once worked as a kitchen aide at Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf campus recognized the remote farmhouse’s potential for parties —

— T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound were the “Odd Couple” of 20th-century poetry —

— Tuesday marks the 163rd anniversary of the publication [...]

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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:

— 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:

— Shackled Magazine Editors Harm Literature; Says Tom Masson, Who Deplores the Ownership of Magazines by Brokers and Soap-Makers Who Make “Hired Men” Editors - By Joyce Kilmer. —

— Nazi Claim May Thwart Bukowski Landmark —

— Argentine poet Juan Gelman wins Spain’s prestigious Cervantes Prize —

— Visual artist Ann Hamilton and poet Henri Cole, [...]

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Poetry News:

— American Literature Is Going to the Dogs; It Is the Fault of Magazines, Says Henry Holt, Who Laments Their Exploitation of Names and Accuses Government of Unduly Favoring Them - By Joyce Kilmer. —

— 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, Fun… What’s a Fib? Math plus poetry. —

— Women dominate the contenders, and [...]

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Poetry News:

— A Genius Whom the War Made and Killed; Rupert Brooke’s Death at the Front Illustrates the Paradox of the Effect on Literature of War, Which Ended His Career and Made Him Immortal By Joyce Kilmer. —

— What do you think are the most important elements of writing poetry? —

— Four of the most [...]

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Poetry News:

— Punctuation In Three Acts By Jessica Handler (congrats Jessica)—

— A hunk of meat crawls macabrely into the home of a strangely unperturbed poet —

— Philip Booth was a poet known for his explorations of existence and New England in an intense, sparse style —

— it’s ironic that these “lost” poems are in the [...]

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Poetry News:

Within a few decades, from these unpromising origins, a brilliant and original body of Hebrew verse began to take shape —

There’s a certain embarrassment in admitting to writing poetry —

Bright stars portray Keats’s doomed love —

in 1994 a man from Springfield, Ore., included in his will the provision that his skin [...]

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Poetry News:

Subverting violent computer games with religious poetry —

the relationship between coffee, literature and commerce —

Report after report testifies to declining literacy in America [link good for 5 days] —

The Major Poet is a continuation of all the other Major Poets who have read here —

Reading Akhmatova’s essays, one is soon [...]

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Poetry News:

“formal” can be found near “formaldehyde” in the dictionary, he jokes —

A poem can enact that process of filling in the emotional meaning —

Questions for John Ashbery:
Well Versed —

Susan Wicks’s De-iced struggles to escape the spectre of the creative writing colony —

What makes a good writer? —

Darnell Arnoult’s [...]

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Poetry News:

his mother used to say to Birmingham neighbours at the beginning of the war, “Wystan in America is doing useful work for the Allies” —

January Astrology for Writers —

Strong-armed thieves take two-tonne statue of poet —

Do-It-Myself Awards throw the book at literary losers of 2006 —

A brush with the Brontes [...]

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Poetry News:

Great American Writers and Their Cocktails —

Now that I am in an M.F.A. program, I am still puzzled about the purpose of those “purpose” statements [link good for 5 days]—

From Ford worker to poet, and his pals definitely know it —

BookFinder.com Unveils the Top 10 Out-of-Print Books of 2006 — [...]

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