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Poetry News For March 1, 2008

Posted March 1st, 2008 by Jilly Dybka

Poetry News:

— April is National Poetry Month. We will be celebrating it with a cover story on March 30, so we are inviting kids 13 and younger to submit their poems to be considered for inclusion —

— Arab ‘Poet Idol’ lures 70 million viewers —

— A good volume of selected poems should be more than [...]

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Poetry News For May 9, 2007

Posted May 9th, 2007 by Jilly Dybka

Poetry News:

— Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! —

— The Poets.org Poetcast, featuring poems from Maurice Manning, Mary Karr and Carl Dennis [links to MP3] —

— PennSound is like iTunes for poetry - but each poem is free, said Charles Bernstein —

— literary bodice rippers for a good cause — [...]

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Oil Soup

Posted September 27th, 2006 by Jilly Dybka

Poetry News:

Poetry brought to life among buried bards —

Oulipo Ends Where the Work Begins — thanks to CruelestMonth for that link.

Mary Karr: sharing the shock of reality —

…a wrist-to-shoulder palette that includes tattooed portraits of poets —

The Sonnets of George W. Bush and other poems of the 43rd presidency —

Worm [...]

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Retracing zagged geometries

Posted March 23rd, 2006 by Jilly Dybka

Wyatt Prunty, who served in the Vietnam war, was inspired to write a poem based on the NewsHour’s Honor Roll of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan
A poet goes on a bender of happiness
Little Rock Airport, Southwest Airlines Exchange Poems
An inspiring writer, good friend
Blythe Brown emerges as latest indispensable literary spouse

Tags: Mary Karr, Patti Smith, [...]

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They are needed by the pageant of creativity!

Posted March 6th, 2006 by Jilly Dybka

I have a poem in the new issue of Elysian Fields Quarterly.

Control, creativity meld in poet’s mist of artistry
Emotions, communities, even languages pair for gay poet
Iain Sharp talks to a young New Zealand writer who has been hailed as a genius
Finding faith doesn’t blunt Karr’s poems
Poems of farm, factory, and going forth
Barbara Guest, Pioneering Poet [...]

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