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Poetry News:

— A Poem for the NCAA Basketball Tournament —

— Death, destruction and fear on the streets of cafes, poets and booksellers —

— What he would have us hearken to most closely is not the song the verse-maker spins inside his own head, but the common world’s melody, “the music of what happens” —

— It [...]

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Poetry News:

— Shakespeare in Dogpatch - Of sonnets and comic strips [link courtesy afitf thank you] —

— Apartment Complex Where Charles Bukowski Wrote “Post Office” For Sale, Could Be Leveled [link found here thank you] —

— Southern book festival announces authors for this year’s event [we have room for 1 guest if you plan [...]

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Poetry News:

— Seamus Heaney’s new book “¦ is sold out before most people have even heard about it —

— Poet Christopher Buckley Wins Guggenheim after 20 years of Trying —

— In Berry tribute, authors explore influence of writer who loves the land —

— Harborview lets poetry do some of the healing —

— When a new [...]

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Poetry News:

Google mashes up books and maps —

“I hate publishing!” Alfred Tennyson complained —

Edward Thomas on the Lagans Road by Seamus Heaney —

The Man With Two Brains —

A New Book Promises an Intriguing Twist to the Epic Tale of ‘Doctor Zhivago’ —

Remembering Brainard —

Edwin Arlington Robinson article at the [...]

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Poetry News:

Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American to win a Nobel Prize, died 50 years ago this week —

Heaney wins TS Eliot poetry prize —

Asahi Haikuist Network —

I should be inclined to rank her second, then, in importance among our women poets [Monday, Aug. 13, 1923] —

Mongoose Civique, Thunder [...]

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vice-versa: the baseball issue
Cummings was studying classics at Harvard by the age of 16, after which he had ‘the time of [his] life’ interned in a French prison camp
Seamus Heaney melds mystic and mythic in verse
The nostalgia sometimes expressed for a vague “old days” when “poetry was popular” neglects the fact that much extremely popular [...]

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The mythmaker
Lambda Literary Awards announced
Luandino Vieira Declines Camoes Literary Award
New Issue of Pleiades Magazine Hits the Streets
Donne portrait saved for nation

Tags: A.V. Christie, John Donne, Lambda Literary Awards, Luandino Vieira, Pleiades, Poetry, Poetry News, poetry writing, poets, Seamus Heaney

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Poet Ginsberg Debates His Father About Drug Use
A different kind of poetry: Janeczko opens students to new perspectives
With essays on art, abattoirs and body parts, the controversial periodical Documents was conceived by Georges Bataille as an alternative to surrealism
These two recent collections from B.C. poets offer a study in contrasts
Heaney gets good reviews at UK
Students [...]

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Elizabeth Bishop: We can read her thoughts, but would she want us to?
There’s no getting away from it, Seamus Heaney is associated with bogs
Poets can submit work for Grolier prize
Thomas Lynch is probably the first American poet to inspire a critically acclaimed television series
Q & A with Baron Wormser
MFA in creative writing at [...]

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The Power of Reticence By Charles Simic
British Library reveals its missing list
American beat
Poet and publisher who taught creative writing dies at 80
Freed from Guantanamo, a poet pleads for lost verses
District and Circle by Seamus Heaney

Tags: Allen Ginsberg, Constance Hunting, Ed Bok Lee, Elizabeth Bishop, Poems, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Seamus Heaney, thieves

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Did you fool with your clocks for daylight savings time?

American Life in Poetry: A Pot of Red Lentils (congrats Peter)
Andrew Motion delights in the exemplary wisdom of Seamus Heaney’s latest collection, District and Circle
The Birch Grove by Seamus Heaney
Hearing again the life-altering, haunting words of poet Sexton
A poet responds to the horror of empty [...]

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