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Poetry News:

— How often have we tried to convey our feelings, only to find our mouth issuing words that we had never intended to speak? —

— Australian Mullahs Attack Literature Course on Women —

— Now celebrating its 30th anniversary, Bloodaxe has established itself as a fundamental force in British poetry —

— How to outsource the [...]

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Poetry News:

— Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins is so moved by a shipwreck that he starts writing again —

— Quiet, dear, Mummy’s writing —

— Pulp Fiction was a seminal film. Will Shakespeare was a seminal poet. Obviously it follows that the two should be mixed together, which is exactly what has been done at Pulp [...]

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Poetry News:

— Her first poetry collection was 10 years in the making, part of which she spent working on her master’s of fine arts in English at Western Michigan University —

— But what people may not know is that Scott-Heron played an instrumental role in getting an official national holiday to honor Martin Luther King, [...]

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Poetry News:

— The most accomplished poetess in the English-speaking world today is Marianne Moore, a greying, mobile-faced, almost reckless spinster, born in St. Louis, Mo. in 1887 —

— She started by looking at the $50000 question: According to its author, what famous poem was conceived during an opium-induced dream? —

— Looking Back: The poet of [...]

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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:

— Charles Nicholl pieces together the untold story of a Jacobean court case and asks what it reveals about the ordinary life of ‘a certain Mr Shakespeare’ —

— Free Verse Hampers Poets and Is Undemocratic; Josephine Preston Peabody Says That, Nevertheless, the War Is Making Poetry Less Exclusive and the Imagiste Cult Will Be [...]

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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:

— Pavarotti’s Death Gets Little Attention in Italy —

— The name “troubadour” likely comes from trobar, which means “to invent or compose verse” —

— Changing of the literary guard - UM appoints creative writing director —

— Benedetti worries about small-press publications … —

— Acclaimed poet Nikki Giovanni, a visiting professor at Fisk University this [...]

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Poetry News:

— Liam Rector, 57, a Poet and Educator, Dies —

— Germaine Greer on Shakespeare’s wife and why she could have inspired the bard’s sonnets —

— Today’s poem is Praying to the Patron Saint of Saved Marriages by Kelli Russell Agodon congrats Kelli —

— Questions and Answers from the American Poetry Association on Poetic Orientation [...]

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Poetry News:

— The way to become a poetry lover, according to the next U.S. poet laureate, Charles Simic … [and more: Politics and the Poet Laureate link found here thank you] —

— Poetry is not a populist enterprise. When it matters at all, it’s the opposite of populist. [link found here thank you] —

— [...]

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Poetry News:

— Baseball is all about loss and failure,” he joked. “So what better subject for poetry? —

— Online, Second Life avatars are prosing and poetizing —

— He turned ‘unschooled’ from insult into a compliment and ‘rule-bound’ from a compliment to an insult —

— He ruled, in effect, that only readers had the right to [...]

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1. All the World Still a Stage for Shakespeare’s Timeless Imagination
2. Prison Poet Turns Focus To Learning Life‘ Lessons
3. Much more than a “woman writer”
4. London pubs done write

Tags: Dylan Thomas, john keats, Lord Byron, Poetry, poets, Prison Poet, Robert Lewis Stevenson, shakespeare, Virginia Woolf

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Poetry News:

William Butler Yeats’s “The Fiddler of Dooney” suggests that idea … —

Prof. Joe Heithaus Wins ‘Discovery’/The Nation Poetry Contest —

McBride‘ poetry leaves lasting impression —

Feelings of sadness for the passing of spring —

Stratford has celebrated Shakespeare’s birth and death date as St George’s Day for over a century [...]

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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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