Poetry News:

1. — The ethereal world of radio poetry —
2. — Beowulf Through the Eyes of Women —
3. — The poetry of pain —
4. — Byron, ghost and partisans enlisted to save Tuscan villa in ruins & Lord Byron’s fanmail uncovered —
5. — 100 Near Perfect Books of Poetry —
6. — Spillage from the Riptides of Desire: Poetry Blurbs —
7. — Mr. Alexander fashions from modern English a vivid reincarnation of Anglo-Saxon poetry — its grim pathos studded with brilliant figurations, its morbid griefs sung in an armorial tone of resolve —
8. — Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2008 Results —

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“A researcher argues in Science that a basic tenet of economics — that people always behave selfishly — can be wrong, sometimes badly so. He points to new experimental evidence that people do often act against their own personal self-interest in favor of the common good, and they do so in predictable, understandable ways. Poorly-designed economic institutions fail to take advantage of intrinsic moral behavior and often undermine it.”

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Steel Toe Books has an open reading period in October for formal-type full-length poetry book manuscripts.

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I don’t have any poetry rules. So I was reading Mary Biddinger’s blog post with everyone’s comments & I was going “I ummmmmmmm … errrrrrr … well … gee.” I   tend to need to have  require some sort of constraint to write up against, though. That’s not a rule though, it’s more like a pathology. I do like to see what I can get away with — in fact, I’ll probably use everyone’s rules about “what not to do” as writing prompts hardee har har har har.

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Poetry News:

1. — When passion for another person emboldens you to feel a sense of possession, you are already on the way to becoming a stalker —
2. — The Chinese community believes it is good to welcome the new year with auspicious verses that rhyme —
3. — Does the world needs book prizes? —
4. — Iraqi poet who joined the Beat generation —
5. — The letters of John Murray to Lord Byron throw invaluable light on an unlikely friendship and fecund collaboration —
6. — In the Modernist era, the poets, as Pound wisecracked, have been more interested in Muses than Moses and though bits of the Psalms have inevitably been embedded in poems —
7. — Battle ahead for ‘cigarette pack’ books —
8. — Words Proposed for Spain Anthem Scrapped —

1. All the World Still a Stage for Shakespeare’s Timeless Imagination

2. Prison Poet Turns Focus To Learning Life‘ Lessons

3. Much more than a “woman writer”

4. London pubs done write