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Poetry News:

— April approacheth, and stalking in its shadow is NAPOWRIMO —

— “It’s always important to have poems that will offend people,” she joked. —

— Exhibition in Petersburg Marks 70th Anniversary since Death of Poet Osip Mandelstam —

— This Saturday she returns to Boston’s Opera House to perform Homeland, an epic poem wrapped in a [...]

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Poetry News:

— The poet who may be prime minister —

— I still begin with the particular, and hope to arrive at the universal —

— Her husband, the poet Osip Mandelstam, wrote a famous epigram about the great leader, for which he met an early death —

— Vehicle of literary endeavour —

— With breakneck pacing he [...]

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Poetry News:

— Spent 22 Years Collecting 15,000 Similes; Frank J. Wilstach’s Ardent and Relentless Hunt for This Elusive Figure of Speech Results in a Remarkable Collection - By Joyce Kilmer [book is at Google books] —

— The Totality of Causes: Li-Young Lee and Tina Chang in Conversation —

— “Jennifer L. Knox is pure magic.” —

— [...]

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Poetry News:

Cary-Grove student Allen Lee (inset) was arrested on disorderly conduct charges after his controversial essay in his English class —

oops —

A sampling of poems from recently published collections —

Sometimes poetry makes things happen —

Criminalizing the creative —

35 years later, Sinclair’s still a poet —

Tags: creative writing, J Patrick [...]

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