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Poetry News:

— If you didn’t browse the comments when I posted about M.F.A. programs last month, you really should: they veered quickly and entertainingly toward gang warfare, with the Crips arguing against such programs and the Bloods arguing for them —

— Mary Oliver’s ‘work is loving the world’ —

— Strip —

— A sheaf of post-April [...]

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Poetry News:

— A translator from many tongues, she loves a pun, even when mourning a dead pooch —

— Atlanta Sings of Poems Electric, Past and Present —

— What We Miss if We Pass on Poetry (Hint: Not Poems) —

— Langston Hughes, 1902-1967: The Poet Voice of African-Americans —

— Houston poet wins $50,000 award —

— Reed [...]

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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:

— Liam O’Gallagher, 90, a Beat Avant-Gardist and Teacher, Dies —

— The question of whether literary writing can be taught seems to have been decided, at least in North America, by the sheer number of creative writing grads
— Borges and the Foreseeable Future —

— A founding co-editor of the journal L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, he [...]

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Poetry News:

Mary Oliver‘ first book of poems, “No Voyage” (1965), was reviewed in this publication by James Dickey, who dumped all over it [scroll down] —

Let’s start with the concept of non-separation —

Derek Walcott’s Selected Poems confirm him as a master of form —

Wordsmiths share tools —

Annette Allen and the poetry [...]

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Poetry News:

the process of getting published didn’t involve a single rejection letter —

Blake used the notebook for more than 30 years —

It’s fitting that Ginsberg’s juvenilia should serve as a beacon in the night of bad poetry —

After 700 years, Dante gets nose job —

Better nature after incalculable loss —

This [...]

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Poetry News:

Jonson calls rhyme “lazy thou” — and relishing the paradox, he denounces the despised device in rhyming lines —

Poet Ferlinghetti chased subs in WWII —

Not sure what is going on at Tupelo Press? —

New collection of poetry by lesbian author explores the staggering power of grief —

‘If music be the [...]

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“Why is poetry different? We can point and laugh at the Dan Browns of the world, safe in knowing we can’t even be compared. We have no expectations of poetry being popular, so we can feel validated by the lack of popularity and our own misunderstood genius.” from Weirdness Evaluation Engine
(Thanks to Reb Livingston for [...]

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