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Poetry News:

1. — NZ’s ‘best-loved’ poet dies [and more at your tributes] —
2. — It’s a great time to be a poetry reader —
3. — Police make arrests in Robert Frost house damage —
4. — Poets Forum Reading: Free Audio Download —
5. — Rough and tumble aren’t the only words that drive Metro Detroit’s literati. —
6. — Under the influence of the Romantic poets, he turned away from a life based on calculation —

Did you fool with your clocks for daylight savings time?

• American Life in Poetry: A Pot of Red Lentils (congrats Peter)
• Andrew Motion delights in the exemplary wisdom of Seamus Heaney’s latest collection, District and Circle
• The Birch Grove by Seamus Heaney
• Hearing again the life-altering, haunting words of poet Sexton
• A poet responds to the horror of empty spaces
• The best poetry, says former U.S. poet laureate Rita Dove, whispers in your ear
• You are living in a world created by Elizabeth Bishop (bug me not)

haha this is so true

• Famed stolen Horace statue finally back
• Bukowsical! is seeking support
• Dovely: Manicure tips from a poet laureate
• Mayor Hickenlooper Names Chris Ransick Denver Poet Laureate
• A fascinating look at Shakespeare’s day-to-day life
• Charles Newman, 67, Writer and Literary Journal Editor, Dies

(requires bug me not

haha! I hope the National Weather Service doesn’t delete this.

• Icelandic saga Beowulf and Grendel pits good against evil
• Poet laureate Rita Dove strives to take the fear out of poetry
• The Columbia Review’s past is, indeed, star-studded
• 18th Lambda Lit. Awards finalists announced
• The other tragic woman in the life of Ted Hughes

• Her New and Selected Poems 1984-2004 is the best place to start
• the winners of this year’s Caltrain love poetry contest
• Poet in running for second book prize in a row
• Poet Dove receives accolade
• Young poets will critique process of reading poetry to bring more poems to people
• Office of the Mayor: Proclamation, Lawrence, Kansas

• Reading makes you bold, says the poet Rita Dove
• “Crater Lake” By Louise Glück
• ‘Hyakunin-isshu’ poems go digital at Kyoto museum
• The London home of Verlaine and Rimbaud, the enfants terribles of French poetry, is up for sale
• Before he was free from slavery, before he even learned to write, George Moses Horton, at 32, had his first book of poetry published

The Nashville Sounds (our minor league baseball team) have a deal for a new fancy stadium. I’ve had some sort of season ticket plan at the current (Greer) stadium for the past 3 years so I have mixed feelings about the new stadium. The current stadium is kinda falling apart but it has its own charm. It is easy to get to. Easy to park. And I bet ticket prices are going to be a lot more. Plus I always get good seats


Greer Stadium 2004

• Is poetry the new Prozac?
• Google Free to Cache: Court
• The long road to Plath
• Gallery’s £1.6m appeal for Donne
• Prestigious book awards to be judged by peers
• How much tragedy in Literature Lost?
• “Two for the Montrose Drive-In” By Rita Dove

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