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Rebecca Loudon

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:

— In Rebecca Loudon’s Radish King, the poems”™ logic is mysterious; happenings in them are inexplicable —

— Giving the mainstream ‘moments of littleness’ —

— What do poets and scientists have in common? [link found here thank you] —

— Dr. McCormick said all the poems are strictly Edison’s words. But Dr. McCormick arranged them as [...]

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Poetry News:

Radish King marks the first book of poems I’ve read that has made me want to call in for penicillin —

Robinson used traditional forms of poetry but focused much of his attention on nontraditional literary topics, often writing about otherwise ordinary, working-class people and events —

This year, NPR.org renews its partnership with [...]

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