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Peter Pereira

Poetry News:

— Her early writing is set in a structured style with familiar rhyming schemes, yet its tone foreshadows her charged works to come —

— Consistencies Found In Synaesthesia: Letter ‘A’ Is Red For Many; ‘V’ Is Purple —

— Poet Giovanni honored with historic marker —

— Poems not only rhymed but the syllables of each [...]

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Poetry News:

— Thank you very much for inviting me to speak about Poetry and Power —

— the latest wrangle in the US reflects a wider problem in deciding what’s good poetry and what’s not —

— VA Tech professor writes poems about shooting —

— Poets are good at discerning life within what otherwise might [...]

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Poetry News:

— Primary care physician and self-described Scrabble junkie Peter Pereira reads from his new collection of poetry, What’s Written on the Body [There is also a review of Peter's book (here).] —

— Books of poetry will fascinate kids of all ages —

— Egypt poet refuses to pay court fine —

— The Rhymes of [...]

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Poetry News:

Students critique Pulitzer Prize winner —

Tulare County poet laureate kept writing until the end —

When words take wing —

That’s the trouble with now. Now we’ve got a horrible culture, horrible times and horrible music. —

From Haiku to the Blues —

Nelson Mandela read an extract from one of her poems, [...]

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Did you fool with your clocks for daylight savings time?

American Life in Poetry: A Pot of Red Lentils (congrats Peter)
Andrew Motion delights in the exemplary wisdom of Seamus Heaney’s latest collection, District and Circle
The Birch Grove by Seamus Heaney
Hearing again the life-altering, haunting words of poet Sexton
A poet responds to the horror of empty [...]

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