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Sylvia Plath

Poetry News:

— The lit mags that could —

— GK intros Maxine Kumin, she and GK read her poetry [real audio] —

— There are stereotypes about Sylvia Plath fangirls — that we’re mired in middle-class existential woe —

— In his new collection, Hardheaded Weather: New and Selected Poems, poet Cornelius Eady writes of his transition [...]

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Poetry News:

— You’re saying to the world, this is how I want to be read, this is how I want to be seen, and those are hard decisions to make —

— Poetry in Motion, Thanks to YouTube —

— The 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were awarded Friday evening, April 25, 2008, at UCLA’s Royce [...]

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Poetry News:

— How to trivialise women’s poetry —

— elitism is a laughable charge to levy against an art that doesn’t require tickets or a premium cable subscription —

— The antipoem’s burlesque charm hits like a nightstick —

— An interview with poet Mary Jo Salter —

— And I may say, perhaps, I’m happier writing about doctors [...]

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Poetry News:

— It may be argued, then, that Plath’s “lasting achievement” was her ability to combine the personal and the mythical in her poetry, thereby endowing this with a timeless and “relevant” literary effect —

— A Russian Poet Unpeels Her Many Lives —

— Rare Emily Dickinson photo(?) purchased on Ebay —

— Intelligence And Rhythmic Accuracy [...]

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Poetry News:

— Poetry should have punch. It should jab, it should undercut, clinch in the corners and consider in hard times the head butt —

— The mother of so much —

— MLB Poetry Preview: Minnesota Twins —

— English poetry masters: Percy Bysshe Shelley —

— Call for Entries to the Festival of Visual Poetry 2008 [...]

Continue reading “Poetry News For March 14, 2008” »

Poetry News:

— The need for warmth is more important than people who have never been truly cold know —

— This great poets list has only one woman. About right, too —

— The poetry journal as mixtape —

— Two things often said about great poets are that they create the taste by which they are appreciated, [...]

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Poetry News:

— The poems of Melissa Green reflect an acute sensitivity and a troubled upbringing and Breaking a Long Poetic Silence [with poems] —

— How Ted Kooser wooed 2,600 women with a few yearly lines —

— Double dactyl keeps poet Hodge amused and busy —

— Seduced by Sylvia Plath’s gore and gloom —

— Ladies’ Home [...]

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Poetry News:

— In ‘‘Elegy,’’ poet Mary Jo Bang has taken on one of the largest and most difficult subjects in all of literature —

— National Book Critics Circle finalists —

— John Milton: the poet who gave us ‘Star Trek’ and ‘The Matrix’ —

— Former poet laureate opening another chapter in his life —

— How lovely [...]

Continue reading “Poetry News For January 14, 2008” »

Poetry News:

— The most important American love poet in living memory, and certainly one of the most important American poets —

— Vet Post Honors PTSD Victim, a Suicide [his poems are here] —

— Sylvia Plath’s art of the visual —

— New York poet and Toledo’s Zin String Quartet to perform multimedia tribute to geniuses —

— [...]

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Poetry News:

— How Does the New Poetry Differ from the Old?; Amy Lowell Laments the Lack of Authoritative Criticism in America — Says No One Should Make a Living by Writing — By Joyce Kilmer —

— it’s impossible not to ask some hard questions about his status and whether it is deserved —

— In a [...]

Continue reading “Poetry News For November 27, 2007” »

More birthday. Happy Birthday:

— The University of Oxford and Indiana University are pleased to announce a joint interdisciplinary conference commemorating Sylvia Plath’s 75th birthday —

— Oxford Marks 75 Years Of Sylvia Plath —

— A Kind of Heroism —

— One for Life, One for Death —

— Sylvia Plath’s Tupperware years —

Firesong
by: Sylvia Plath
Born green we were
to [...]

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Poetry News:

— For many years now, the most popular poet in America has been a 13th-century mystical Muslim scholar —

— Poetry of all kinds, but war poetry in particular, has a different significance for a cadet at West Point than it does for undergraduates at most other colleges and universities —

— DePauw Professor’s Gift Creates [...]

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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 [...]

Continue reading “Poetry News for September 10, 2007” »

Poetry News:

— Revealed: Sylvia Plath’s unseen art, discovered in the attic —

— Stevensville man named state’s poet laureate —

— A culmination of sorts came in 1983 when we collaborated with Dudley Randall‘ Broadside Press —

— Sterling family mourns loss of “˜Mary Had a Little Lamb”™ home —

— First, I offer you “Lot’s Wife,” a poem [...]

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