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Poetry News:

— Poet d.a. levy memorialized in new book —

— Write, stop, pivot, punch —

— But tomorrow is another day that he can enjoy twice, full of bees, birds, and breezes in a beet field —

— Road Scholar Copy Edits America —

— Sinéad Morrissey’s Through the Square Window won the 2007 National Poetry Competition. [...]

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Poetry News:

— A translator from many tongues, she loves a pun, even when mourning a dead pooch —

— Atlanta Sings of Poems Electric, Past and Present —

— What We Miss if We Pass on Poetry (Hint: Not Poems) —

— Langston Hughes, 1902-1967: The Poet Voice of African-Americans —

— Houston poet wins $50,000 award —

— Reed [...]

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Poetry News:

— Opening Day in the Motor City —

— These 2 links might not be safe for work: UNM’s director of creative writing said she will resign because her colleague has not been punished for posing in sexually explicit photos with students. and more here —

— The sheer aesthetic appeal of the poem, to which [...]

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Poetry News:

— Some poems seem inaccessible. But when one resonates, it changes our perceptions.
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— Poet Cathy Smith Bowers has made a career of nudging writers along —

— An icon sees poetic justice — and a conspiracy —

— Fairfield U offers new MFA in writing —

— An interview with poet Jorie Graham —

— Writers awarded [...]

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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:

— There should be a place for more original poetry to be posted and shared - let’s start right here —

— Needed: Contemporary Visual Poetry for Poetry —

— Psalms offer source of inspiration for prayer —

— University Comes To Aid Of Literary Magazine —

— Here are 15 short poems as animated films. They’re the [...]

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Poetry News:

— Scantily Clad e-chaps —

— When James Woolley, Smith Professor of English, discovered a lost manuscript of the 18th century Irish satirist Jonathan Swift, he was met with a jaw-dropping surprise: the poet’s first unpublished poem in centuries —

— “I do not think that more information always makes a richer poem. I am attracted [...]

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Poetry News:

— It’s also an opportunity to have the kind of immediate relationship with an audience that is all too often unavailable to poets, no matter how well-known they are —

— Book Review The Ghost Soldiers (2008) James Tate —

— Jonathan Williams: 1929-2008 By Jeffery Beam • Special to The Smoky Mountain News —

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Poetry News:

— The Poetry Center’s American Poetry Archives is one of the most extensive literary collections in the U.S., home to approximately 3,000 original recordings captured at the Poetry Center’s live poetry reading series —

— Man gets suspended term, Frost homework in vandalism case —

— He and his wife, Tibetan poet and essayist Tsering Woeser, [...]

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Poetry News:

— April approacheth, and stalking in its shadow is NAPOWRIMO —

— “It’s always important to have poems that will offend people,” she joked. —

— Exhibition in Petersburg Marks 70th Anniversary since Death of Poet Osip Mandelstam —

— This Saturday she returns to Boston’s Opera House to perform Homeland, an epic poem wrapped in a [...]

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Poetry News:

— Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has arrived in Europe to begin a new life, reports say, after protests by Muslim groups forced her into hiding in India. —

— The Polish Immigrant, by Peter Skrzynecki —

— Despite T.S. Eliot’s doubts that the traditional sonnet could figure importantly in modern poetry, it thrives to this day [...]

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Poetry News:

— He died from a love of poetry [thanks Lee!] —

— Theater For The New City will present On Naked Soil - Imagining Anna Akhmatova, a new play written and co-starring stage and screen veteran Rebecca Schull —

— Punishing the publisher —

— Stuck for a rhyming scheme? Try the ghazal. It’s wickedly difficult to [...]

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Poetry News:

— A Poem for the NCAA Basketball Tournament —

— Death, destruction and fear on the streets of cafes, poets and booksellers —

— What he would have us hearken to most closely is not the song the verse-maker spins inside his own head, but the common world’s melody, “the music of what happens” —

— It [...]

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Poetry News:

— Mail sorter’s poems win $65,000 prize —

— Hopkins’s syntax is so mangled, the lines so packed with heavy plodding accents and stilted comma stops, that he speaks as if through a chokehold —

— A pair of fine collections from Philadelphia poets who fervently put their wanderings to words —

— after the last customer [...]

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