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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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(not a draft but I fear I will be adding to it)

Poem by an American
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I had to modify my RSS feed to show only a post’s snippet, sorry. This blog is getting splogged and scraped like mad lately and I find that very irritating.
Poetry News:

— Call for poets! —

— Using verse as a kind of verbal massage for your emotions cheapens it terribly. And it won’t do you much [...]

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Poetry News:

— Some of his latest readings include the collected works of American poet Robert Creeley and poet Lyn Hejinian’s book “My Life.” —

— American Ghazals —

— Hickory poet Scott Owens will have his third chapbook of poems published online in April by the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature —

— A copy of a [...]

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Poetry News:

— The poems of Melissa Green reflect an acute sensitivity and a troubled upbringing and Breaking a Long Poetic Silence [with poems] —

— How Ted Kooser wooed 2,600 women with a few yearly lines —

— Double dactyl keeps poet Hodge amused and busy —

— Seduced by Sylvia Plath’s gore and gloom —

— Ladies’ Home [...]

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Poetry News:

— If you like your poets tortured and doomed, then Alun Lewis (1915-44) is your man —

— A ‘mystical’ experience with two poets —

— The drunken fall of the house of Poe —

— Li-Young Lee has ushered us into 2008 with “Behind My Eyes,” his first collection of poems in seven years [may require [...]

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Poetry News:

— He was, said his friend William Burroughs, an “inner space explorer”, but the Frenchman remained a solitary figure, outside any artistic grouping, almost the only exponent of his art, and almost certainly the only poet to record sounds and movements by swallowing a microphone —

— Our poet is in a far colder place [...]

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Poetry News:

— Tempe’s Arizona State University to Host Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference —

— What exactly are poems? And what are they good for? —

— Callous peddler ’steals’ from sick —

— Eureka! How the Brain has ‘Aha’ Moments —

— We talked to our first poet laureate about how he got the job, the sound [...]

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Poetry News:

— Why John Milton sides with the angels —

— Sometimes the prose is pure poetry —

— Poetry workshop: Peter Bennet admires the responses to his exercise on the moonlit world of Walter de la Mare —

— David Trinidad talks with Richard Siken about his fascination with the world of Barbie and the process of [...]

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Poetry News:

— The most important American love poet in living memory, and certainly one of the most important American poets —

— Vet Post Honors PTSD Victim, a Suicide [his poems are here] —

— Sylvia Plath’s art of the visual —

— New York poet and Toledo’s Zin String Quartet to perform multimedia tribute to geniuses —

— [...]

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Poetry News:

— New lit mag alert —

— Afghan woman poet Nadia Anjuman remembered two years on —

— TO make one anthology is not necessarily a proof of courage; it may be merely a sign of ignorance. But to dare the wrath of neglected poets and of their friends the critics a second time, is bravery. [...]

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Poetry News:

— “When women stop reading, the novel will be dead” —

— G. C. Waldrep Blood Ruminant [link found here thank you] —

— Woman visits her own heart at exhibition —

— Don’t blame Bukowski for bad poetry —

— A Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of a Sparrow by Noah Eli Gordon —

— John Walsh reports [...]

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For my sister, Intissar, and for Dr. Clarissa Pinkola EstésOnce upon a timewhen crows flocked to the illuminated clouds of dreams, gold jingledwith midnight and the cooled sky sustained this wildness. But sooncame the reign of the Evil King, and his dazed kingdom had nursed far too longon bad tidings presented as medicine, to be [...]

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The Reanimation of Ted Williams’ Frozen Head
It is almost imperceptible — the twinkle of ice rime thawing
in an interior steel room filled with exaggerated gases,
near a regal super-neuro-unificator machine.
Everything is silent but for a discontinuous tinkling,
which means the enfolding of the field begins,
which is a prognostication of the heft of the bat,
which means science is [...]

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