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Poetry News:

— With passion, precise imagery, astute description, the well-traveled poet covers a lot of ground —

— Some say that if we make a space for the person we wish for, then that spot may be suitably filled —

— As T. S. Eliot once remarked, we cannot say where technique begins or where it ends [...]

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Poetry News:

— Interview: Poet Major Jackson —

— Just when you think that nothing is sacred in a Koch poem … —

— Small press has big dreams for writers in N.C. —

— Need a new password? Here’s literary help. —

— VJTI lecturer beaten over Shivaji poem —

— Beating the odds, Alaska Quarterly Review reaches 25th year [...]

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Poetry News:

— The [Washington] state Arts Commission is taking applications for the job of poet laureate —

— An ex-soldier’s take on recent war poetry —

— in giving MacNolia a voice, the poet, A. Van Jordan, deals with the subject of balancing our love —

— The poems aren’t irreverent ““ they don’t mock the grave or [...]

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Poetry News:

— Morphine —

— The Author Will Take Q.’s Now —

— Major Jackson: Where He‘ From —

— Clueless CBI gives up Nobel theft probe after three years —

— Why Attempt Suicide? Evidence from the Poetry of Suicidal Poets —

— Mothers’ reading style affects children’s later understanding of other people’s minds —

— Philomene Long, 67, poet [...]

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Poetry News:

We’ll have Major Jackson on for the hour reading his poems and waxing philosophic about where he, and where all of us, are from —

Prince’s visit will be marked with sheep poem —

Lines of Resistance —

2007 southeastern literary magazine & small press festival [thanks to Tom for letting me know] — [...]

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Poetry News:

Rhyme is often dismissed as conventional, old-fashioned and childish —

Poet and UVM prof Major Jackson finalist for NAACP Image Award —

Robert Anton Wilson, January 18, 1932 - January 11, 2007 —

VI by John Haynes —

Slonimsky Bridges Whitman and Wall Street as Poet/Fund Manager —

£900,000 to study medieval poet — [...]

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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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See you Monday. Have a good Easter. If you’re Christian. Heck have a good Easter, even if you’re not.

Jackson’s formal talents and lyrically spun narratives dazzle in a book that covers everything from lay-ups to po-biz
Poet recounts from being ‘locked away in a drawer’ to taking center stage as University professor
Letters and [...]

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New Elizabeth Bishop Book Sparks a Controversy (bug me not)
Ted Hughes project given boost
Blogger’s culinary odyssey awarded literary honour
Authors tell about inspiration
In his book Hoops , Major Jackson emphasizes a garden’s hopeful and civilizing qualities (bug me not)

Tags: Elizabeth Bishop, Forough Farrokhzad, Major Jackson, Poems, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Ted Hughes

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“The Man I Killed” By David Thorburn
Copper Canyon basks in the glow of two huge prizes and its illustrious writers
Library of Congress Presents ‘Song of America’ Tour
Poetry scam disappoints literary hopefuls
World‘ Largest Choka Adds Concordance
Contentment, Love and Liquor: Snapshots From the Life of a Poet (bug me not)
Shakespeare’s legendary first folio is to be sold [...]

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