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Poetry News:

— Robert Burns poems podcast —

— Winter Night by Po Chu-I, translated by David Hinton —

— George Oppen, who wrote some of the most austerely beautiful poems of the twentieth century, is known best for not writing at all —

— A cry of “Holy cow!” went up when an envelope was opened recently at [...]

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Poetry News:

— Burmese poet held for insulting poem —

— One of the best Burns Nights I ever went to, the host left books of Burns poems round the table and just waited for people to relax [and Win a Year's Supply of Haggis on Burns Night at Scot Bingo yum] —

— People Of the Chapbook [...]

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Poetry News:

— Wonder Woman’s creator, Dr William Moulton Marston, a Harvard-educated psychologist, might have appreciated this new self-awareness of an ambivalent superhero —

— Among the writers he published are Ed Dorn, Kenneth Irby, Alice Notley, Paul Metcalf, Joanne Kyger and Robin Blaser. —

— Poetess murder accused seeks jail perks —

— Quirky Poetry Collection a Salute [...]

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1. Toast to Bard is auctioned for £15,800
2. Gary Snyder: James Lovelock’s arguments for nuclear power ‘demented’

Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Gary Snyder, James Lovelock, nuclear power, Robert Burns

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Poetry News:

Poetry and Peeps in Southern Village —

Poetry Month: New verse from Carl Dennis —

Unpopular for centuries, poetry continues to survive around the world and in Columbus —

Burns love life movie revived by actor’s success as a Spartan —

Nova Scotia lost a cultural hero Tuesday with the passing of celebrated Mi”™kmaq [...]

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Poetry News:

‘Isotope’ gets $5,000 grant (yay! I loooove Isotope) —

“The Lorca family cannot stand me” —

With history as his muse, a poet finds new voices —

Decision on Burns museum awaited —

The Waste Land: Declassified poetry from Guantanamo Bay —

7 regional writers vying for book critics honors —

My mom is [...]

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Poetry News:

A few years older than Emily Dickinson, a few years younger than Walt Whitman, Larcom was nothing like a great poet, but she was a competent writer —

Some authorities debate whether “prose poetry” even exists as its own legitimate form —

Bass player Steve Swallow has been meditating on the poetry of the [...]

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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

Tags: Assia Wevill, Beowulf, Lambda Literary Awards, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Rita Dove, Robert Burns, The [...]

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Well-kent phrases from the Bard’s best poems
Christian Wiman’s verses range from the bleak to the witty
Poet Mark Strand calls dust-jacket photos “the door to the dark room of the imagination”
Contest for best Caltrain love poem
Browning’s dreamy snake girl goes on sale
The agents were using well-known poems as the cyphers for encoding their messages

Tags: Christian Wiman, [...]

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