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Poetry News:

Eileen Simpson, who was married to John Berryman for 10 years, wrote “Poets in Their Youth: A Memoir” (requires bug me not) —

Small but mighty journal turns 25 —

Do books have to be ugly? —

Donald Hall Takes Helm as New US Poet Laureate —

For writer Ron Rash, a direct path [...]

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Poetry News:

poets.org podcast (MP3) —

UW Professor Nominated for National Book Award —

Alice Notley‘ newest collection of poems, Alma, or The Dead Women, is a pure expression of rage and grief —

What the poet wants is not always what’s best —

An Australian short film about a smoking dog who searches for a [...]

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Poetry News:

Roberts, Angelou Among Quills Winners —

Nike literary prize for Maslowska —

“Poem Ending With Three Lines From ‘Home on the Range’” By Frank Bidart —

Pamuk Gets Nobel Literature Prize —

Judges Name “˜06 National Book Award Finalists —

Reasserting the Power of Robert Creeley’s Verse —

My medical test was rescheduled so [...]

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Poetry News:

Greece hopeful museum will house Elgin marbles —

A monument to Marina Tsvetayeva unveiled in Tarusa, Kaluga Region —

Gwendolyn Brooks’ Indispensable ‘Maud Martha’ —

Kenneth Koch’s poetry took readers on a thrill ride —

The Handwriting Is on the Wall —

Senegal Commemorates Its ‘Poet President’ —

Abduction, rape and murder [...]

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Poetry News:

Pakistan: Holy War Culture Is Killing Poetry —

There has been a trend of late, particularly in the pages of old fogy-types like Poetry, to bemoan the current state of poetry —

Poetry is perennially on the ropes, a pensive, esoteric artform in a world absorbed by novelty and new media —

Indie Bookstores [...]

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Reminder: AE Stallings at Vanderbilt tonight.
Poetry News:

Kallet’s newest book, “Circe, After Hours” (BkMk Press) is anything but cryptic —

Power of poetry drives writer’s campaign for literacy —

Southern Festival of books Oct. 13 to 15, Downtown Memphis —

Baseball poet a star —

From an unlikely source, a new literary journal —

David [...]

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Poetry News:

There’s a mainstream idea that you sacrifice aesthetics if you write about political positions —

Take a look at her exercise on ekphrasis —

Poet puts Heaney in shade by scooping £10,000 prize —

A Turkish author has gone on trial on charges of insulting Turkey’s founder, —

There’s something elegant about [...]

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Poetry News:

Poet’s name lives on in parkette —

Mayakovsky dimly sensed what another poet of genius would exploit to the full —

Publishing Mousetrap: Professor Reviews Book That Mauled Him”Mine —

Terrorism strikes at the hearts of Britain’s young poets —

top 10 novels on poets —

Sean O’Brien won the £1,000 best single [...]

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Poetry News:

John Hollander of Woodbridge is the state’s new poet laureate —

Never trust a man whose eyebrows meet —

Preparations are underway for tonight’s opening of the Beat Museum in San Francisco —

Children Get a Poet Laureate —

Friends, family remember writer, UM professor —

If Shakespeare was drunk while he was writing, [...]

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Poetry News:

Thinking women’s sculptor resurrects ancient ones —

The bad blood between two romantics —

Sublime translation of Wang Wei poems —

Frost’s N.H. home falls into disrepair —

The files continue well into the 20th century, and include a 1937 report on Andre Breton —

Language often has a figurative, connotative logic —

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Poetry News:

Robert Service’s poem, “The Cremation of Sam McGee,” tells the tale of two gold miners in the Yukon

‘Perennial Fall,’ by Maggie Dietz (requires bug me not)

It may be one of the Top 10 Milton collections in North America

A quiet, demanding talent

Coleridge’s descendants sell papers that reveal family’s views on a maverick poet

The [...]

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Poetry News:

Born June 15, 1943, in Pontiac, he became a key figure in the Detroit poetry scene during the 1980s and early 1990s

What I Did at Summer Writers”™ Camp

Poet’s death still troubles Spain

She is credited with being the first woman to write a book in English

Poet Alberto Rios reads from his latest book of poetry [...]

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Poetry News:

What part of “we own the copyright” doesn’t Google understand?

In Basho Matsuo’s footsteps

The elegy between poets enshrines verse for eternity

Medal Day is the only day of the year when the MacDowell Colony, a renowned artist retreat, is open to the public

A film critic, an author and a poet discuss whether or not art helps [...]

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Poetry News:

Reflective and vivid, cool rather than melodramatic, these compact poems have a grotesque comedy

‘Infidel’ statute should be repealed

Shakespeare‘ forgotten friends, rivals and countrymen

Even at the Royal Society of Literature, poets can be heckled for their views

Poet: magistrate agreed emails were serious

Found after 50 years: first love poems of Ted Hughes

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