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Poetry News:

— Things fall apart: is the post-9/11 imagination disintegrating? —

— Happy Birthday, Archibald MacLeish! —

— Dante, Primo Levi and the intertextualists —

— On other occasions he complained he looked like “a cross between an egg and a bloodhound” and “an egg sculpted in lard, with goggles on” —

— It reminds me of the old [...]

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Poetry News:

— The day Thoreau died —

— Sexually explicit poetry forces educator out —

— Dylan’s mystery girl tells it like it was —

— Poetry readers tend to lead active lives, listen to music, read a lot, use the Internet and volunteer at significantly higher rates than non-poetry readers, according to a study looking [...]

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Poetry News:

— I tend to write poetry when I need to scratch an itch, something has been triggered and I need to study why. —

— Gillian K Ferguson has spent five years working on a mirror ’sequence’ of 1,000 poems inspired by her wonder at the human DNA code being cracked —

— Features On Mercury [...]

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Poetry News:

— You’re saying to the world, this is how I want to be read, this is how I want to be seen, and those are hard decisions to make —

— Poetry in Motion, Thanks to YouTube —

— The 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were awarded Friday evening, April 25, 2008, at UCLA’s Royce [...]

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Looks like I’ll have to update my Poets Laureate map pretty soon.

Tags: Charles Simic, poet, Poet Laureate, Poetry, Poetry News, poets

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Poetry News:

— These aren’t pastoral poems delighting in nature; they’re set in a muddy town of drunken fights —

— Try doing it, and what you’ll end up with is cheap imitation Frank O’Hara —

— Thieves steal homeless poet’s words —

— Agenda will celebrate its half centenary next year, having been founded by William Cookson and [...]

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Poetry News:

— Today’s poem is “An Ode to Drunkenness and Other Criminal Activities” by Rebecca Loudon —

— U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic contributed original verse for the liner, in an appropriate fit between poet and musician —

— New Buk on DVD —

— Online conversation with Stryker brigade poet Brian Turner —

— Al Young took to [...]

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Poetry News:

— Thanks to poetry, X=imagine the possibilities —

— Salt To Expand Its Stable Of Free Online Literary Magazines —

— His meteoric poetic output began with his first professionally published poem at 16, but by 20 he stopped writing poetry and would later declare of his work: “All of that was just pig swill.” [...]

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Poetry News:

— We are each a bundle of nervous impulses: to fidget, to gossip, to be distracted, to inquire, and especially to satisfy our scalding curiosity by looking at anything we’re told not to look at —

— Big is still best but not everything Americans do is supersized - a rich tradition of shorter verse [...]

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Poetry News:

— I think that you have to go on your nerve—that’s something Frank O’Hara used to say —

— Most critics thought the young Barker a better poet than the young Thomas, and the latter, who called his rival’s poems “masturbatory monologues”, seems to have been madly jealous —

— Definition of poetry splits the literati [...]

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Poetry News:

— How to trivialise women’s poetry —

— elitism is a laughable charge to levy against an art that doesn’t require tickets or a premium cable subscription —

— The antipoem’s burlesque charm hits like a nightstick —

— An interview with poet Mary Jo Salter —

— And I may say, perhaps, I’m happier writing about doctors [...]

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Poetry News:

— The sonnet is a frequently misunderstood form with an enduring appeal. Fancy having a crack at your own ‘little song’? —

— it also cements her reputation as the greatest poet of her generation —

— This sense of freedom is produced by Ashbery’s diction (no American poet has had a larger, more diverse vocabulary, [...]

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Poetry News:

— It may be argued, then, that Plath’s “lasting achievement” was her ability to combine the personal and the mythical in her poetry, thereby endowing this with a timeless and “relevant” literary effect —

— A Russian Poet Unpeels Her Many Lives —

— Rare Emily Dickinson photo(?) purchased on Ebay —

— Intelligence And Rhythmic Accuracy [...]

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Poetry News:

— Unfortunately, poetry in general has a bad reputation —

— new lit mag alert —

— The Griffin Poetry Prize Announces the 2008 Canadian and International Shortlist —

— She did say, though, that her interest in cryptography, the study of coded writing, influenced her poems, along with her love of puzzles —

— Never has so [...]

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