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Poetry Foundation

The Newberry Library, an independent research library located in Chicago, IL, offers long-term and short-term fellowships to scholars who work primarily in the humanities. This year we have joined with the Poetry Foundation to offer a new short-term fellowship to poets and scholars of American Poetry. Please see below for a more thorough description of [...]

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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:

— The second part of this post is about my impression of the role that some phantasmatic nightmare image of AWP plays in the imaginations of many participants in the various online poetry worlds —

— The poet laureate talks about how he’s not enamored of nature, his vote in the New Hampshire primary and [...]

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Poetry News:

— A Genius Whom the War Made and Killed; Rupert Brooke’s Death at the Front Illustrates the Paradox of the Effect on Literature of War, Which Ended His Career and Made Him Immortal By Joyce Kilmer. —

— What do you think are the most important elements of writing poetry? —

— Four of the most [...]

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Poetry News:

— Five years after Ruth Lilly’s $100 million gift to the Poetry Foundation, a mixed verdict —

— Singer gives Dickinson’s verse a new voice —

— Big brother is reading your poetry —

— University of Arkansas Press Poetry Book Wins Virginia Literary Award —

— Long-lost Blake watercolours shown for 1st time —

— William Matthews Birthday [...]

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Poetry Blog-O-Rama (but not this one hahahaha. hmmm. I guess I’m not doing something right - it’s been 4 years of posting poetry news mostly every day & not even a blip on anyone’s radar LOL. I have to think about that.)
Nice to see WOMPO - Women’s Poetry Listserv mentioned. I volunteer webmaster for [...]

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Poetry News:

— A report card is a report card ” unless it belongs to Robert Penn Warren —

— Literary magazines come and go; none lasts forever —

— The ad also has a popular poem, when the initial letters are added up … [and more here] —

— The Psychology of Rejection —

— Poet Fleur Adcock [...]

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Poetry News:

— Shoot the Messenger: Dana Goodyear, David Orr, and the Stewards of Poetry —

— Mercer Simpson felt a close affinity with Wales and the literary affairs of the country where he lived for more than 50 years —

— Poet, o poet, who art thou? —

— She was a leader in the concrete poetry movement [...]

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Poetry News:

— Talking paper made by scientists —

— The Nassau poetry flap grew uglier yesterday —

— Official Bard Fixes Keen Eye on Alexandria —

— Lit Mag Marathon Weekend {NYC} —

— The fete allows any print organization”magazines, poster designers, newspapers, zines”to distribute free copies of their product —

— Beware the Bloggers’ Bile —

— A Call for [...]

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Poetry News:

— Berkeley Profs Wrote Some Good Books —

— Lucille Clifton’s truth in poetry has made her the first African-American woman awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize —

— Foldable Book of Poems —

— Literary magazine loses its funding —

— Besty Wergin, R-Princeton, criticized the state government finance bill in a poem [...]

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Poetry News:

Onion Radio News Announces Annual Poetry Contest-Winner [I think Foetry should be notified.] —

With Lilly backing, poetry group closes on prime home —

Seventy years ago this Sunday, people in New York City stopped what they were doing to look up at the sky —

UNM’s Frumkin remembered for his compassion —

Silence [...]

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Poetry News:

“This Rhymeless Nation” A Pamphlet On The Poetry Foundation By Warren Banditto at the Chicago Review. (Should be one of the first links on that page.) —

A poet’s heavenly coffeepot my family’s drive-in had Bunn-o-Matic coffe makers haha —

I’m afraid that, in this instance, it is evident that Logan has written [...]

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Poetry News:

Emily Dickinson Rendered —

The chink in his armour —

Rare Books’ Auction Is A Best Seller —

Her father’s voice —

Jane Gentry Vance, longtime teacher and poet, has been named Kentucky’s new poet laureate —

Indeed, The New Yorker now treats poetry almost exactly as Goodyear suggests the Poetry Foundation does ” [...]

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Poetry News:

Frontlines of poetry war nasty —

Appalachian poets come together in new book ‘Coal, A Poetry Anthology’ —

Montana House rejects compensating poet laureate —

After eight books, Rebecca McClanahan hopes that she still has a lot to learn —

Ellen Bryant Voigt’s poems take on the world from a fixed rural place — [...]

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