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— 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manuscript of the 18th century Irish satirist Jonathan Swift, he was met with a jaw-dropping surprise: the poet’s first unpublished poem in centuries —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:

Language always has at least a little meaning and always has at least a little element of static or nonsense —

Poetry readings are strange animals —

Some five years after the death of poet A.R. Ammons in 2001, there comes a flurry of books that hold promise of keeping his words alive — [...]

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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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Poetry News:

Dante’s terza rima is the perfect form for John Haynes’s Letter to Patience —

Poet literally sees colors in words and letters (login: requires bug me not) —

Poet Bob Hicok, author of such collections as “Insomnia Diary” and “Animal Soul,” likens the work of Jack Ridl to John Cage’s “4′33” (login: requires [...]

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Robert Phillips, poet behind the wheel

Poetry warms wintry souls

Gluck is not only a major American poet, but a Jewish poet, though she is rarely read that way

Blanco: highly criticized poem was tribute to Justin Wilson

Disillusioned Pakistani poet returns top award

Poetry and peace go round the Stone Circle campfire

Now, companies are producing trailers for books — [...]

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Poetry News:

Ancient and modern meet in these haunting poems (bug me not)

Adrienne Rich: She knew me before I knew myself

The banished wife who created her own little Eden

The discovery of an ancient epic poem caused a storm in the 1760s, until it was dismissed as a fake

William Shakespeare, Show Us Your Face (bug me not)

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Jack Kerouac, 1953
‘Averno,’ by Louise Glück (requires bug me not)
University of Florida professor wins National Book Critics Circle Award
Is there a poet who wouldn’t look?
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Reading makes you bold, says the poet Rita Dove
“Crater Lake” By Louise Glück
‘Hyakunin-isshu’ poems go digital at Kyoto museum
The London home of Verlaine and Rimbaud, the enfants terribles of French poetry, is up for sale
Before he was free from slavery, before he even learned to write, George Moses Horton, at 32, had his first book [...]

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