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Poetry News:

— Post-apocalypse, Poetry, and Robots —

— Changing Hands Bookstore hosts a handful of acclaimed poets (all female) who contributed to Letters to the World: The Wom-Po Anthology —

— People find what they lack in themselves in this object of adoration —

— Iranian poet Simin Behbahani is the first recipient of Stanford’s Bita Prize for [...]

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Poetry News:

— writers in their early careers today face a peculiar and sometimes unenviable set of circumstances —

— poems take on lives - people shouldn’t hold on to them, they should send them out so it has a chance to get a life —

— Each poem presents the dying thoughts of a different character —

— [...]

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Poetry News:

— In ‘‘Elegy,’’ poet Mary Jo Bang has taken on one of the largest and most difficult subjects in all of literature —

— National Book Critics Circle finalists —

— John Milton: the poet who gave us ‘Star Trek’ and ‘The Matrix’ —

— Former poet laureate opening another chapter in his life —

— How lovely [...]

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Poetry News:

— Two hundred and fifty favored subscribers received a bewildering book last week —

— The Library is on Fire —

— Joel Lipman confirmed as Lucas County poet laureate —

— Poetry Roundup —

— Spam, spam, spam, spam, and poetry —

— Amazon.com Buys J.K. Rowling Fairy Tale for 1.95 Million Pounds —

On Tuesday, The Plain [...]

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Poetry News:

— The Happy Endings Foundation hoax —

— Vendor of verse: It’s personal at NYC street ‘poem shop’ —

— “Poetry arises out of a mind that feels itself in some way to be cracked” —

— Editorial: A Muse Unplugged —

— In three books, over eight years, Matthea Harvey has moved to the front of the [...]

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