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Sometimes a poem delights by mismatching some familiar style of language with a surprising topic —

With a Shakespearean sentence the brain sees it as grammatically difficult but tolerates it as making sense —

3 New Chancellors for Academy of American Poets —

There’s something comforting to Virgil’s conception of humanity —

Roubaud is [...]

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Poetry News:

Poetry brought to life among buried bards —

Oulipo Ends Where the Work Begins — thanks to CruelestMonth for that link.

Mary Karr: sharing the shock of reality —

…a wrist-to-shoulder palette that includes tattooed portraits of poets —

The Sonnets of George W. Bush and other poems of the 43rd presidency —

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Mexican poet spent 27 years composing book-length work
For any other poet, 19 poems and a short story would have seemed a poor show for 15 years’ labour
The (half-joking) point of Oulipo was to make experimental literature more scientific
Small-town girl won many laurels for her poetry
At the Fishhouses by Elizabeth Bishop

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