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Poetry News:

— Catherine Breese Davis wrote of loss, abandonment, destitution, despair and decrepitude—and she knew what she was talking about —

— Between Poetry and Performance, a Film Finds a Rocker’s Heart —

— A Voice Poetry Roundup: From half-baked utopias to diabetic bitches —

— But if no one likes to read poetry — or so it [...]

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Poetry News:

— So what did Peter Mark Roget, the creator of Roget’s Thesaurus, do to handle all the pain, grief, sorrow, affliction, woe, bitterness, unhappiness and misery in a life that lasted over 90 years? —

— Others believed poet Sylvia Plath was lead singer of pop group the Black Eyed Peas —

— Do not panic…yet. [...]

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Poetry News:

Student discharged from Marines after essay —

Museum celebrates poet’s dog —

From punk poet to cover girl —

Houdini died in Detroit, but he lives in poetry —

Cut-and-paste poetry —

Cecil Day-Lewis had an appetite for women that hurt his wives but inspired his poetry —

Tags: Cecil Day Lewis, Emily Dickinson, [...]

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Poetry News:

Patti Smith’s stars align —

Emory Buys Poet’s Love Letters —

I couldn’t believe it. It was like writing a letter. —

Outsider’s 52 cantos go the distance to take poetry title from Heaney —

Three worthy literary/arts journals have released new issues recently —

Hear poems read by the nominees of one of [...]

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Random fact about me #1: I have never paid more than $2500 for a car.
For the first 5 years of my adult life I was a musician. == broke
Then I married a musician. == broke
Then I was a student, married to a musician. == even more broke
Then I got an MFA and student loans, married [...]

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Wyatt Prunty, who served in the Vietnam war, was inspired to write a poem based on the NewsHour’s Honor Roll of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan
A poet goes on a bender of happiness
Little Rock Airport, Southwest Airlines Exchange Poems
An inspiring writer, good friend
Blythe Brown emerges as latest indispensable literary spouse

Tags: Mary Karr, Patti Smith, [...]

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