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Poetry News:

— A Penis-shortening Device Described by the 13th Century Poet Rumi —

— Saginaw, Mich., might be sagging but we can admire it for producing poet and teacher Theodore Roethke, and for preserving his boyhood home —

— Books news: Earliest “Howl” tape uncovered at Reed —

— Brooklyn-based poet Tom Sleigh has won the $100,000 US [...]

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Poetry News:

— Which, if any, will still be remembered by the 21st Century? —

— You like my poems? So pay for them —

— ‘Twas a Christmas Poem Whodunit —

— Salute to John Lennon —

— Eminent poets sometimes write poems to please children. Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) succeeded, with poems that are short, funny, well-rhymed and [...]

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Poetry News:

— ‘Penelopiad’ Opens on Stage —

— What makes Stevens tough to interpret is his unique diction, which is a mixture of the hymn, the ornate and the bizarre —

— Inductee Sanders turns poetic —

— In the 1960s, Amiri Baraka converted from Greenwich Village Beat poet to Harlem agitator, influencing a generation of young black [...]

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Poetry News:

— The hijacker of everyday logic —

— Writers and Poets on Film —

— Pothole Poet Guilty —

— Putting Feelings Into Words Produces Therapeutic Effects In The Brain —

— Here is a poem by Wislawa Szymborska, translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh —

— Stage work dissects complexity and demons of poet [...]

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Poetry News:

Emmett Williams, 81, Fluxus-Movement Poet, Dies —

Washington takes ‘Debaters’ podium —

poet Alison Stine sees Cash as a mentor of sorts —

William Pitt Root’s Western poetry leaves readers with an appetite for more —

A Trip to the Swimming Pool That Killed Theodore Roethke —

Nationally acclaimed poet now makes his home [...]

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Roles of writer and critic to be discussed at Vanderbilt Spring Symposium; Linda Gregerson, David Lehman and James Wood to visit

Three prominent writers who also critique others in their field will participate in Vanderbilt University‘ annual Spring Symposium on March 23 and 24.
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