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Reginald Shepherd

Poetry News:

— Detained poet in hospital with hernia —

— Haikuists are adept at juxtaposing vivid imagery during springtime —

— For the next four days, the area around U Street and Columbia Heights will be buzzing with the presence of poets —

— Stray Questions for: Ishmael Reed —

— Current Finalists for the 20th Annual Lambda Literary [...]

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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:

— Morphine —

— The Author Will Take Q.’s Now —

— Major Jackson: Where He‘ From —

— Clueless CBI gives up Nobel theft probe after three years —

— Why Attempt Suicide? Evidence from the Poetry of Suicidal Poets —

— Mothers’ reading style affects children’s later understanding of other people’s minds —

— Philomene Long, 67, poet [...]

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Poetry News:

Emmett Williams, 81, Fluxus-Movement Poet, Dies —

Washington takes ‘Debaters’ podium —

poet Alison Stine sees Cash as a mentor of sorts —

William Pitt Root’s Western poetry leaves readers with an appetite for more —

A Trip to the Swimming Pool That Killed Theodore Roethke —

Nationally acclaimed poet now makes his home [...]

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