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Tony Hoagland

Poetry News:

— A translator from many tongues, she loves a pun, even when mourning a dead pooch —

— Atlanta Sings of Poems Electric, Past and Present —

— What We Miss if We Pass on Poetry (Hint: Not Poems) —

— Langston Hughes, 1902-1967: The Poet Voice of African-Americans —

— Houston poet wins $50,000 award —

— Reed [...]

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Poetry News:

— Ms. Malaika was one of a small group of Iraqi poets who broke away from classical Arab poetry, with its rigid metric and rhyme schemes —

— …the other is a rare first-edition copy of Phillis Wheatley’s “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral” that dates to 1773 —

— Poet Mary Ellen Solt, a [...]

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