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Poetry News:

— Instead of starting with a blank page, poet Austin Kleon grabs the New York Times and a permanent marker — and eliminates the words he doesn’t need —

— On an unconscious level, this final replication exceeds the early rhyme but also thwarts it when the two sounds become identical (as the mother and [...]

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Poetry News:

— The Poetry Center’s American Poetry Archives is one of the most extensive literary collections in the U.S., home to approximately 3,000 original recordings captured at the Poetry Center’s live poetry reading series —

— Man gets suspended term, Frost homework in vandalism case —

— He and his wife, Tibetan poet and essayist Tsering Woeser, [...]

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Poetry News:

— Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has arrived in Europe to begin a new life, reports say, after protests by Muslim groups forced her into hiding in India. —

— The Polish Immigrant, by Peter Skrzynecki —

— Despite T.S. Eliot’s doubts that the traditional sonnet could figure importantly in modern poetry, it thrives to this day [...]

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Poetry News:

— Soon, she was weaving together poems about the employees’ experiences in America and at work at the factory —

— In the meantime, his poetry is massively overrated: rhymes are amateur, scansion is sloppy and the content is unintelligible, bordering on insane —

— Armed with magnifying glasses and mirrors, the censors are on a [...]

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Poetry News:

— New Pages’ Lit Mag Reviews are Fresh —

— Loss of poet Salinas is loss to literature —

— Nick Drake’s From the Word Go meditates upon a single word —

— Robert Frost, Unplugged, Praised Rich Capitalist Fools, AP Says —

— The polls are open in the annual balloting for the Diagram Prize, honoring [...]

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Poetry News:

— Some of his latest readings include the collected works of American poet Robert Creeley and poet Lyn Hejinian’s book “My Life.” —

— American Ghazals —

— Hickory poet Scott Owens will have his third chapbook of poems published online in April by the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature —

— A copy of a [...]

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Poetry News:

— Austin poet and activist Raúl Salinas has died. —

— First-Ever Essence Literary Awards Celebrate African-American Writers —

— A provocative new edition of Faustus claims to solve a literary mystery and unite two of Romanticism’s greatest poets —

— “No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader,” was how he put it [...]

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Poetry News:

— rarely has a work of literature ignited or inspired a new sporting event —

— he reviewed four of the original Frost notebooks housed in Boston University’s archives and found “roughly one thousand” errors in Mr. Faggen’s work —

— ‘Poe Toaster’ avoids being spotted at Edgar Allan Poe’s grave —

— Confrontation, the award-winning literary [...]

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Poetry News:

— NZ’s ‘best-loved’ poet dies [and more at your tributes] —

— It’s a great time to be a poetry reader —

— Police make arrests in Robert Frost house damage —

— Poets Forum Reading: Free Audio Download —

— Rough and tumble aren’t the only words that drive Metro Detroit’s literati. —

— Under the influence of [...]

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Poetry News:

— (She has) sealed the deal to have CavenKerry Press, a nonprofit literary publisher, publish about 60 of her poems in a book titled “Underlife.” —

— Frost Vandalism Update —

— A Japanese version of blank verse —

— 9 destination bookstores worth putting on a tourist’s itinerary —

— An untutored poet refuses all instruction from [...]

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Poetry News:

— Federico García Lorca called it “el duende” — in Spanish, the elf — a dark, irrational muse that leads artists to tragic depths —

— It was beyond my imagination that in a secular democracy this can happen to a writer —

— Police Get Tips in Frost Vandalism Case [and sad pictures]—

— Poetry, community [...]

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Poetry News:

— Vandals ransacked the interior of Homer Noble Farm, the summer home of the late poet Robert Frost —

— Every New Year’s Eve, the normally dry Coast Guard log takes on a lyrical charm —

— John Ashbery’s verse can be hard to understand, but the simple act of reading his latest collection, Notes From [...]

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Poetry News:

— Podcast options aplenty for poetry [ congrats Thom ] —

— Poets Resort to Guerilla Marketing —

— On the same day, “Verses,” DiFranco’s first published collection of poems and lyrics, will be released —

— Would-be authors say they were let down; ‘vanity’ publisher says business went bad —

— Responses to the anthology question [...]

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Poetry News:

— In order to encourage the pursuit of execrableness, Slate is hosting its first “Bad Poetry Contest” —

— Robert Frost’s Musings Are Both Insightful, Insane —

— Here’s a villain wallowing in his malevolence and deformity —

— A Canadian magazine dedicates its summer issue to overlooked poets and finds there’s a pattern to the neglect [...]

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