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Poetry News:

— A Poem for the NCAA Basketball Tournament —

— Death, destruction and fear on the streets of cafes, poets and booksellers —

— What he would have us hearken to most closely is not the song the verse-maker spins inside his own head, but the common world’s melody, “the music of what happens” —

— It [...]

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Poetry News:

— Police close in on Frost suspects and Vandalized Frost house drew a crowd —

— Susan Briante, more recently, continues with this approach to poetry as a symbolically active art. —

— Snow Falling on Voters By DONALD HALL —

— Prozac is all grown up — and all over the arts —

— Got a Manuscript? [...]

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Poetry News:

— Such esoteric experiments as Have They Attacked Mary He Giggled—A Political Satire, Lucy Church Amiably, Tender Buttons and her monumental The Making of Americans may have to wait for a doubtful posterity to be properly appreciated —

— Autobiography of a Mythic Life —

— Two Poems by Gerald Stern —

— Michael Wilding recounts how [...]

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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:

— 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:

— Political rhymes: duple meter vs. iambic pentameter —

— the Grand Prize for inspired concept and execution goes to… —

— Joe Torre Haiku Contest —

— Poet awarded $75,000 fellowship —

— This lies at the very heart of Ted Hughes’s vision of life, and made him a much more appropriate laureate for the Thatcher years [...]

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Poetry News:

— There’s this idea he was a stern, reclusive, hard man, but, in fact, he was great company, he loved gossip and he’s not the Ted Hughes that people have in their imaginations at all —

— Kerouac, baseball and Denver —

— Poet Thomas Sayers Ellis will read from his work at 8 p.m. Thursday, [...]

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Poetry News:

— The early letters of the future poet laureate reveal many of his lifelong obsessions, from furry animals to the occult, mostly in a financially anxious form —

— More to the point, they seem to fill a gap left increasingly by magazines, which rarely publish this type of material anymore —

— That Canadians would [...]

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Poetry News:

— Shakespeare in Dogpatch - Of sonnets and comic strips [link courtesy afitf thank you] —

— Apartment Complex Where Charles Bukowski Wrote “Post Office” For Sale, Could Be Leveled [link found here thank you] —

— Southern book festival announces authors for this year’s event [we have room for 1 guest if you plan [...]

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Poetry News:

— Sometimes, he keeps his musing, vernacular voice so moderate in tone that the writing reminds me of a baseball term for certain pitchers, “sneaky fast” —

— Conjugated Visits by Diane Kirsten Martin —

— Truro hosts exhibit on poet Elizabeth Bishop —

— best known for his poem “Over the Hill to the Poor House” [...]

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Poetry News:

Patti Smith’s stars align —

Emory Buys Poet’s Love Letters —

I couldn’t believe it. It was like writing a letter. —

Outsider’s 52 cantos go the distance to take poetry title from Heaney —

Three worthy literary/arts journals have released new issues recently —

Hear poems read by the nominees of one of [...]

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vice-versa: the baseball issue
Cummings was studying classics at Harvard by the age of 16, after which he had ‘the time of [his] life’ interned in a French prison camp
Seamus Heaney melds mystic and mythic in verse
The nostalgia sometimes expressed for a vague “old days” when “poetry was popular” neglects the fact that much extremely popular [...]

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New Elizabeth Bishop Book Sparks a Controversy (bug me not)
Ted Hughes project given boost
Blogger’s culinary odyssey awarded literary honour
Authors tell about inspiration
In his book Hoops , Major Jackson emphasizes a garden’s hopeful and civilizing qualities (bug me not)

Tags: Elizabeth Bishop, Forough Farrokhzad, Major Jackson, Poems, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Ted Hughes

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National Poetry Month: What for?
Underneath the wit, Parker was a tortured soul
Variety of well-versed books hit shelves for National Poetry Month
Return my work, says Guantánamo poet
A poet and scholar spins her narrative

Tags: dorothy parker, Joyce Peseroff, National Poetry Month, Poems, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Ted Hughes

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