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Natasha Trethewey

Poetry News:

— “The fact that your taste in poetry is exectable shouldn’t prevent us from having a vermouth together” —

— No contemporary poet is famous, but some are less unfamous than others —

— US poet and novelist Bukowski’s poems to be translated in Iran —

— Bigger Cars, Flip-Up Seats, Poetry: How Riders Would Run a [...]

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Poetry News:

— A Genius Whom the War Made and Killed; Rupert Brooke’s Death at the Front Illustrates the Paradox of the Effect on Literature of War, Which Ended His Career and Made Him Immortal By Joyce Kilmer. —

— What do you think are the most important elements of writing poetry? —

— Four of the most [...]

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Poetry News:

Emory Prof Wins Poetry Pulitzer —

Selections from readings hosted for National Poetry Month 2007, including new poems by Laure-Anne Bosselaar and Elaine Equi [links to MP3] —

Do you walk around with a rainforest in your head? —

Here are the five bestselling poetry books in the US for the week of March [...]

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Poetry News:

Gwendolyn Brooks Captures Chicago ‘Cool’ —

Elizabeth Bishop’s Christian sin —

Who Gives Away Books Online? “Scabs,” Says Prominent Sci-Fi Writer —

2007 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters, Drama and Music —

Irish poet Eavan Boland turns to “the charged spaces in which people live ….” —

Egypt cleric sues poet for comparing God to [...]

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Poetry News:

Legend links lettered olive seashell with Poe’s ‘The Gold Bug’ —

Whatever rejects us only makes us stronger —

In death match, fearless poets spar but haiku lives —

Dickinson’s path intrigues to this day —

Poets discuss the works they’re reading for inspiration or diversion —

Dark horse chosen for Commencement —

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Here is Trethewey’s “Elegy for the Native Guards”
A 560-page poem about the other world drawn from some 25 years of conversing with spirits at the Ouija board
Poetic injustice for local child prodigy?
Bob Hicok has been teaching at Virginia Tech for two years in the same way that he writes poetry
Robert Pinsky reflects on his Favorite [...]

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