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Poetry News:

— Poetry workshop: Try Sean O’Brien’s exercise on poetic dramatisation —

— Brian Turner and Bruce Weigl from Lannan Podcasts by Lannan Foundation [links to MP3] —

— The revival of Cid Corman’s journal Origin reminds me of when international discussion of poetry took place at a slower, more intense, pace —

— One includes “text, pictures, [...]

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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:

— How much should a poet be paid per line? —

— Fifty years ago, I suspect that along with Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, and Sandy Koufax, most Americans could have named, at the very least, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg … —

— Rutgers-Newark Offers New MFA Program In Creative Writing —

— “Physicists talk in metaphor [...]

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Scenes from Homer found in Cyprus ‘warrior tomb’
Bukowski, who lived in Los Angeles, wrote too much, and too indiscriminately
Naomi Shihab Nye‘ poetry spans generations
Jane Duran’s workshop
Agnes Walsh named St. John’s poet laureate
Chattanooga Festival Of Writers: A Literary Event For All

Tags: Agnes Walsh, book awards, Charles Bukowski, Homer, Jane Duran, literature, Naomi Shihab Nye, Poems, [...]

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