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Poetry News:

— A parting of the ways in poetry —

— On March 2, 1952, Guest was named Michigan’s first poet laureate —

— Waldman is pleased that Walter Salles will direct the movie version —

— Millay was a national celebrity, and her readings would outdraw Robert Frost‘ —

— The Wounded Angel, 1903, by Amanda Auchter (congrats [...]

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Poetry News:

For sale: the pub Dylan Thomas called home —

Prof. Meryl Altman Analyzes ‘Sappho’s Lost Session’ in Women’s Review of Books —

Poets can make dead words sing —

You cannot claim to care a fig for poetry unless you have at least a rough idea of what he was about; and his essence [...]

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Literary Mama: Mothers of Invention (requires bug me not)
After decades of suffering and repression under Stalin, Anna Akhmatova lived to see her poetry celebrated (requires bug me not)
Why the Virginia Quarterly Review matters
Sappho, who lived in the 7th century B.C., made poems that continue to influence Western love poetry (requires bug me not)
William Baer offers [...]

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