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Poetry News:

— Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has arrived in Europe to begin a new life, reports say, after protests by Muslim groups forced her into hiding in India. —

— The Polish Immigrant, by Peter Skrzynecki —

— Despite T.S. Eliot’s doubts that the traditional sonnet could figure importantly in modern poetry, it thrives to this day [...]

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Poetry News:

— Power Crazy Senior General Than Shwe: A chapbook edited by A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz —

— Are we all clear on what a chapbook is? —

— Taslima’s visa extended —

— Elizabeth Bishop’s Writings Collected in New Volume [with audio & video] —

— Upcoming exhibition: Notre Livre: À toute épreuve. A Collaboration between Joan [...]

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Poetry News:

— Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill’s The Fifty Minute Mermaid asks us to examine the very nature of our present-day livesr —

— Like music, poetry is not just about meaning —

— His goal with the book is to help people understand the lives that Native Americans live in today’s society and how much racism and stereotypes [...]

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Poetry News:

— Burmese poet held for insulting poem —

— One of the best Burns Nights I ever went to, the host left books of Burns poems round the table and just waited for people to relax [and Win a Year's Supply of Haggis on Burns Night at Scot Bingo yum] —

— People Of the Chapbook [...]

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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 [...]

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Poetry News:

— Federico García Lorca called it “el duende” — in Spanish, the elf — a dark, irrational muse that leads artists to tragic depths —

— It was beyond my imagination that in a secular democracy this can happen to a writer —

— Police Get Tips in Frost Vandalism Case [and sad pictures]—

— Poetry, community [...]

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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:

— Last week two U. S. lady poets, whom repute places high above the ruck of feminine poetasters, smote their lyres in unison —

— A doctor and poet in Boston, Campo writes eloquently about his divided loyalties in “How I Learned English: 55 Accomplished Latinos Recall Lessons in Language and Life” —

— The attraction [...]

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Poetry News:

— War Has Stopped European Letters and Art; But After Peace Old Forms Will Be Inadequate to Express New and Tremendous Experiences Says Arthur Bullard - By Joyce Kilmer. —

— Freelance writer and Navy veteran Jeff Hess is starting a writers group specifically for those who have served in the military [cool, Jeff]—

— Beat [...]

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Poetry News:

— Nothing But Itself Can Harm American Poetry; May Riley Smith Thinks Magazines Fail to Benefit It, Because They Do Not Demand a High Order of Verse — By Joyce Kilmer —

— Entries wanted for ‘Dylan Days’ creative writing contest —

— Flash of bad sex wins late Norman Mailer coveted book prize —

— Candle [...]

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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 [...]

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Poetry News:

— Our Rich Authors Make Cheap Literature; Ida M. Tarbell Laments Tendency of Some of Our Modern Writers to Sacrifice Their Independence and Self-Respect for the Sake of High Prices By Joyce Kilmer —

— Controversial Bangladeshi feminist writer Taslima Nasreen has been flown out of the Indian city of Calcutta after violent protests by [...]

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Poetry News:

— American Literature Is Going to the Dogs; It Is the Fault of Magazines, Says Henry Holt, Who Laments Their Exploitation of Names and Accuses Government of Unduly Favoring Them - By Joyce Kilmer. —

— 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, Fun… What’s a Fib? Math plus poetry. —

— Women dominate the contenders, and [...]

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Poetry News:

— Posts will be sporadic —

— the percentage of women vs. men being published in literary journals discussions at the Poetry Foundation’s blog —

— As we expected, our article on Miss Eliza Cook has drawn upon us the fierce wrath of a fair lady, who has written us a trenchant note, in which [...]

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