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Poetry News:

— It may be argued, then, that Plath’s “lasting achievement” was her ability to combine the personal and the mythical in her poetry, thereby endowing this with a timeless and “relevant” literary effect —

— A Russian Poet Unpeels Her Many Lives —

— Rare Emily Dickinson photo(?) purchased on Ebay —

— Intelligence And Rhythmic Accuracy [...]

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Poetry News:

— Who can explain why the practice of poetry has become the object of so much satire and snide dismissal? [link found here thanks] —

— The Poem as Comic Strip #6 —

— For this, my farewell “Poet’s Choice” column, here are two poems related by a form: the sonnet —

— He is the leading [...]

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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:

— 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:

— In ‘‘Elegy,’’ poet Mary Jo Bang has taken on one of the largest and most difficult subjects in all of literature —

— National Book Critics Circle finalists —

— John Milton: the poet who gave us ‘Star Trek’ and ‘The Matrix’ —

— Former poet laureate opening another chapter in his life —

— How lovely [...]

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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:

— Poetry Chronicle —

— Poems on the frontiers; a lobster lesson on the sea
— Jenny Holzer Makes Light of Poems and Beats Swords Into Paintings —

— Pakistani’s Poem Offers Hope in Despairing Time —

— In ‘Telephone Ringing,’ Adrienne Rich makes music of words —

— Here is Arizona poet Steve Orlen’s lovely tribute to the [...]

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Poetry News:

— In the summer of 1911, a frail, 50-year-old spinster named Harriet Monroe began knocking on the doors of wealthy Chicagoans —

— An Interview with Cathy Smith Bowers —

— “Poet’s Choice” columnist Robert Pinsky fields questions and comments on this year in poetry — transcript —

— From penniless obscurity to recognition 250 years after [...]

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Poetry News:

— War Has Stopped European Letters and Art; But After Peace Old Forms Will Be Inadequate to Express New and Tremendous Experiences Says Arthur Bullard - By Joyce Kilmer. —

— Freelance writer and Navy veteran Jeff Hess is starting a writers group specifically for those who have served in the military [cool, Jeff]—

— Beat [...]

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Poetry News:

— Legendary songstress Joni Mitchell returns with new music, art, ballet —

— For Yankees, Squirrel‘ Visit May Be Omen (a Bad One) —

— An innovative programme at a pioneering prison helps long-stayers to write - and perform - their own poems —

— Members of the artists’ collective “Voina” set the table for a funeral [...]

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Poetry News:

Black Mountain Breakdown —

How should creative writing teachers handle students who turn in gruesome stories? —

“Stephen Colbert challenges Sean Penn to a Meta-free-phor-all, with Robert Pinsky presiding” —

Lost Shakespeare poem published for first time —

Lake Superior State University 2007 List of Banished Words —

One of the most frequent irritations about the [...]

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Poetry News:

Ron Rosenbaum, author of The Shakespeare Wars, on releasing the “infinite energies” within Shakespeare’s words —

Parrot’s oratory stuns scientists [and more here] —

Poets.org Poetcast Galway Kinnell reads a poem by James Wright, Robert Pinsky reads “Other Hand,” and Gregory Orr reads an untitled poem [mp3] —

Writers, Editors Say Adios to SASEs [...]

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Here is Trethewey’s “Elegy for the Native Guards”
A 560-page poem about the other world drawn from some 25 years of conversing with spirits at the Ouija board
Poetic injustice for local child prodigy?
Bob Hicok has been teaching at Virginia Tech for two years in the same way that he writes poetry
Robert Pinsky reflects on his Favorite [...]

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Loving Repeating: A Musical of Gertrude Stein
Laureate hit by writer’s block
Courting controversy: Poet Baraka visits Rowan
Cream lyrics found in old shopping bag
a conversation with robert pinsky

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