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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:

— Poet to be retried for illegal publishing —

— The gendered reader —

— It’s easy to find books on race and gender in academic life, but only a handful focus on social class [link good for a few days] —

— With humor, wisdom and bite, these new collections by Minnesota poets speak to [...]

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Poetry News:

Death of Dylan … ‘a flamboyant, eloquent, Bohemian genius’ —

There were 69 available creative-writing jobs advertised across the nation in October, up from . . . . —

Just six per cent of people UK-wide can confidently sing the Robert Burns favourite —

Forget the gym, flex your poetic muscle instead —

Appalachian [...]

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Poetry News:

Great American Writers and Their Cocktails —

Now that I am in an M.F.A. program, I am still puzzled about the purpose of those “purpose” statements [link good for 5 days]—

From Ford worker to poet, and his pals definitely know it —

BookFinder.com Unveils the Top 10 Out-of-Print Books of 2006 — [...]

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Poetry News:

There’s a mainstream idea that you sacrifice aesthetics if you write about political positions —

Take a look at her exercise on ekphrasis —

Poet puts Heaney in shade by scooping £10,000 prize —

A Turkish author has gone on trial on charges of insulting Turkey’s founder, —

There’s something elegant about [...]

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Kim Addonizio is blogging at the Poetry Foundation this week
Paper erodes, tablets are smashed
A Bibliophile’s Worst Nightmare
How Betjeman learned to boogie
point and counterpoint
The tradition of poetry as a way of being mean is an ancient one

Tags: Anne Bradstreet, John Betjeman, Kim Addonizio, Mary Ruefle, MFA, Poems, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Writing and poetry

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I’m doing my MFA thesis reading on Monday January 9th 2005 at 8pm in Charlotte NC at Queens University of Charlotte. You’re all invited. It’s in the auditorium in the Sykes Learning Center (PDF)

Tags: Four Quartets, MFA, nausea, Queens University of Charlotte

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