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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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Poetry News:

— Poetry should have punch. It should jab, it should undercut, clinch in the corners and consider in hard times the head butt —

— The mother of so much —

— MLB Poetry Preview: Minnesota Twins —

— English poetry masters: Percy Bysshe Shelley —

— Call for Entries to the Festival of Visual Poetry 2008 [...]

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Poetry News:

— The need for warmth is more important than people who have never been truly cold know —

— This great poets list has only one woman. About right, too —

— The poetry journal as mixtape —

— Two things often said about great poets are that they create the taste by which they are appreciated, [...]

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Poetry News:

— Why this bevy of bards, this plethora of poetry, this Vesuvian eruption of verse? —

— MLB Poetry Preview: Chicago Cubs —

— My first reaction was, “What are you smoking?” —

— This week, the Academy of American Poets announced the launch of … a mobile poetry archive providing free access to a collection [...]

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Poetry News:

— The 5-minute Interview: Felix Dennis, publisher and author —

— Poetry workshop: David Morley finds variety and accomplishment in equal measure in the nature poetry prompted by his March poetry ‘field trip’ —

— First mantra of the Rig Veda is the first known poem in the world —

— 2008 is the 120th anniversary year [...]

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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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[still getting splogged/scraped, sorry. Turned off the full RSS feed again.]
Poetry News:

— Pinned in a subway car with arms at your sides, you can call up a poem and enter a cathedral of words that anoints you again in your singular passions —

— Mary Jo Salter came of age as a poet in the 1970s [...]

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Poetry News:

— National Book Critics Circle winners unveiled in New York —

— Where are the women writers in translation? —

— Find of the Day —

— Poetry of Li-Young Lee Is ‘Descended from Dreamers’ [MP3] —

— Note to Jack London, poet: Don’t give up your day job —

— McSweeney’s (online) wants pantoums and senryu [this [...]

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Poetry News:

— Post-apocalypse, Poetry, and Robots —

— Changing Hands Bookstore hosts a handful of acclaimed poets (all female) who contributed to Letters to the World: The Wom-Po Anthology —

— People find what they lack in themselves in this object of adoration —

— Iranian poet Simin Behbahani is the first recipient of Stanford’s Bita Prize for [...]

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Poetry News:

— Official State Author and Poet Are Named —

— Owners To Open ‘Mystery Room’ Sealed For 50 Years —

— What are your feelings on MFA programs in regard to authors publishing in today’s market? —

— The rubric “poet among painters” does not adequately explain the radical shifts between formal and personal values in O’Hara’s [...]

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Poetry News:

— Initially championed by TS Eliot, the poetry of Lynette Roberts has long since fallen out of fashion, but her voice remains fresh and challenging —

— MLB Poetry Previews —

— Inventory By Frances Richey —

— Frances Wilson’s The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth reveals a passionate, talented woman whose love for her brother defined her [...]

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Poetry News:

— Soon, she was weaving together poems about the employees’ experiences in America and at work at the factory —

— In the meantime, his poetry is massively overrated: rhymes are amateur, scansion is sloppy and the content is unintelligible, bordering on insane —

— Armed with magnifying glasses and mirrors, the censors are on a [...]

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