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Poetry News For September 7, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. British publisher touts American Indian poets
  2. Even 33 years after I first read Sharon Olds, I remember the fresh shock her poems delivered like a body blow
  3. The Guardian reports that Carol Ann Duffy has written a poem called Mrs Schofield’s GCSE in response to the removal of her poem from the GCSE syllabus
  4. Recently re-released in the U.S., Ian Monk’s Writings for the Oulipo dazzles with its display of samples
  5. Toilet door poetry project launched
  6. In praise of the praise of poetry
  7. Hands That Speak, Hands That Rhyme
  8. New Old Visual Poems Posted on Spore
  9. Where’s the rest of the review? It that all?

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Poetry News For January 17, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. NZ’s ‘best-loved’ poet dies [and more at your tributes] —
  2. It’s a great time to be a poetry reader
  3. Police make arrests in Robert Frost house damage
  4. Poets Forum Reading: Free Audio Download
  5. Rough and tumble aren’t the only words that drive Metro Detroit’s literati.
  6. Under the influence of the Romantic poets, he turned away from a life based on calculation
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Poetry News for September 21, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. U.S. Airport Screeners Are Watching What You Read
  2. She will read one poem and then place a sticker on the person
  3. Pulitzer Winner to Take Over as New Yorker‘ Poetry Editor
  4. The Terrorist At My Table (Penguin, Rs 200) by Imtiaz Dharker is a collection of poems born in times ruled by terror and instability
  5. Can you discuss the significance of the Sharon Olds poem that sparked the narration and your decision to incorporate it into the production?
  6. The 5-minute Interview: Benjamin Zephaniah, Poet
  7. James Fenton on poets and explosive events

That’s funny, my brother David just sent me Novels in Three Lines (mentioned in that last link). It does seem “the literary equivalent of Weegee.” Strange little prose poems. It arrived yesterday so I haven’t sunk into all of it yet. I like it though.

David is my eldest brother — 20 years older than me. :D

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Poetry News for July 12, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. Punctuation In Three Acts By Jessica Handler (congrats Jessica)—
  2. A hunk of meat crawls macabrely into the home of a strangely unperturbed poet
  3. Philip Booth was a poet known for his explorations of existence and New England in an intense, sparse style
  4. it’s ironic that these “lost” poems are in the limelight as the subject of a six-year lawsuit
  5. Hunter Discusses Reshaping ‘Shopworn’ Language
  6. From rags to riches, or how undergarments improved medieval literacy
  7. On This [yesterday] Day
  8. Of all the great English poets, Dryden must be the least enjoyed
  9. Sharon Olds with Michael Silverblatt from Lannan Podcasts by Lannan Foundation
  10. The Poem as Comic Strip #4
  11. The poetics of Americana with Kimiko Hahn and David Baker [links to MP3] —
  12. In our own day, no doubt Toni Morrison and Seamus Heaney have their fans, but I would be extremely surprised if, in 100 years’ time, anyone rated their work

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