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Michael Longley

Poetry News:

— If birds come from something as bizarre as a smooth ovoid container with no exit or entry, then it’s not too far of a stretch to imagine that the backbone of a corpse becomes a snake —

— WordPlay - WPVM: Celebrating Jonathan Williams [links to MP3] —

— 2008 National Magazine Award Finalists —

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Poetry News:

— The hijacker of everyday logic —

— Writers and Poets on Film —

— Pothole Poet Guilty —

— Putting Feelings Into Words Produces Therapeutic Effects In The Brain —

— Here is a poem by Wislawa Szymborska, translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh —

— Stage work dissects complexity and demons of poet [...]

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Poetry News:

“I was willing to resign before I was going to continue with him,” Ms. Giovanni told CNN —

After John Berryman, American poetry turned toward having the weight and feeling of its words overshadow the story —

Contemporary poet Blas Falconer to read works at APSU Thursday [Nashville] —

Drunk vandals target poet’s garden [...]

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