Poetry News:
- — Sina Queryas has a life that’s been much cooler than yours —
- — Pity the poetry collection. That thin volume of poems, so easily lost on a crowded shelf —
- — Sarah Churchwell is frustrated by the limp portrayal of a hotheaded, randy Latin poet in Helen Dunmore’s Counting the Stars
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- — Anyway, he said: “Blurbs are nonsense — they’re all hyperbole and hype.” —
- — Poet-Soldiers Lend Voices on Iraq War —
- — He’s adept with form, from sonnets, heroic couplets, ballad stanzas and terza rima, to those basic nursery-rhyme ditties he likes —
- — Brigit Pegeen Kelly seems to typify the distinguished American poet —
- — Robert Creeley (1926-2005) was one of the darker poets of his generation, and also one of the best —
ha Jessie brought this quiz to my attention. Thanks. 
You Are a Colon
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You are very orderly and fact driven.
You aren’t concerned much with theories or dreams… only what’s true or untrue.
You are brilliant and incredibly learned. Anything you know is well researched.
You like to make lists and sort through things step by step. You aren’t subject to whim or emotions.
Your friends see you as a constant source of knowledge and advice.
(But they are a little sick of you being right all of the time!)
You excel in: Leadership positions
You get along best with: The Semi-Colon
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Poetry News:
- — The most important American love poet in living memory, and certainly one of the most important American poets —
- — Vet Post Honors PTSD Victim, a Suicide [his poems are here] —
- — Sylvia Plath’s art of the visual —
- — New York poet and Toledo’s Zin String Quartet to perform multimedia tribute to geniuses —
- — “Poesía diaria” rinde honor a desaparecidos en Argentina [English translation at this link]—
- — Jean Sprackland, of Southport, took the title in the poetry category of the Costa Book awards, formerly known as the Whitbread Prize —
So what online archive can I pillage for poetry news now? I already did the free NYT and Time Magazine archives. What I learned from those articles:
a. the public has never supported poetry
b. poets have never made any $ from poetry
c. women poets have always been marginalized but at least some aren’t called “spinsters” anymore
d. poetry has never sold
hahaha
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Kate Light,
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