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Poetry News:

— Poetry workshop: Try Sean O’Brien’s exercise on poetic dramatisation —

— Brian Turner and Bruce Weigl from Lannan Podcasts by Lannan Foundation [links to MP3] —

— The revival of Cid Corman’s journal Origin reminds me of when international discussion of poetry took place at a slower, more intense, pace —

— One includes “text, pictures, [...]

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Poetry News:

— Does poetry have any real agency in the world? It might not seem so, but poets have made some stirring arguments that it does, —

— Canadians are playing key role in `Books 2.0′ —

— Saying he has a mandate to make poetry more accessible, P.E.I.’s poet laureate has launched a website —

— [...]

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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:

— Blog or self-published (logroll) “reviews” are not reliable sources [link found here] —

— a unique film festival was held where poetry was the focus of the cinematic medium —

— Exploring Gertrude Stein’s nooks and crannies —

— Synchronously with the growing decline of the novel we are witnessing the beginning of a new golden [...]

Continue reading “Poetry News for October 26, 2007” »

Poetry News:

— Thank you very much for inviting me to speak about Poetry and Power —

— the latest wrangle in the US reflects a wider problem in deciding what’s good poetry and what’s not —

— VA Tech professor writes poems about shooting —

— Poets are good at discerning life within what otherwise might [...]

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Poetry News:

— The mystery of how we read a sentence has been unlocked by scientists —

— In recent years literary research has come to focus more and more on visual forms, and digital poetry brings to a head this concern with the visual —

— To the Death…May the Best Writer Win —

— Poetcast: September 10th, [...]

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Poetry News:

— Poet and short story writer Grace Paley, a literary eminence and old-fashioned rebel who described herself as a “combative pacifist,” has died (and NYT) —

— Fatwa offers unlimited money to kill Taslima —

— Remembering Liam Rector —

— Out of this has come a small industry in creative writing courses —

— We Need Models [...]

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Poetry News:

Subverting violent computer games with religious poetry —

the relationship between coffee, literature and commerce —

Report after report testifies to declining literacy in America [link good for 5 days] —

The Major Poet is a continuation of all the other Major Poets who have read here —

Reading Akhmatova’s essays, one is soon [...]

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