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Tracy K Smith

Poetry News:

— Austin poet and activist Raúl Salinas has died. —

— First-Ever Essence Literary Awards Celebrate African-American Writers —

— A provocative new edition of Faustus claims to solve a literary mystery and unite two of Romanticism’s greatest poets —

— “No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader,” was how he put it [...]

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Poetry News:

— A Genius Whom the War Made and Killed; Rupert Brooke’s Death at the Front Illustrates the Paradox of the Effect on Literature of War, Which Ended His Career and Made Him Immortal By Joyce Kilmer. —

— What do you think are the most important elements of writing poetry? —

— Four of the most [...]

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Poetry News:

— Charles Nicholl pieces together the untold story of a Jacobean court case and asks what it reveals about the ordinary life of ‘a certain Mr Shakespeare’ —

— Free Verse Hampers Poets and Is Undemocratic; Josephine Preston Peabody Says That, Nevertheless, the War Is Making Poetry Less Exclusive and the Imagiste Cult Will Be [...]

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Poetry News:

Who Keeps Killing Poetry? —

Principal’s poetry prompts meeting —

The biggest little magazine in history —

Lines from a lost city —

Quickie Interview # 15: Tracy K. Smith —

State poet laureate? Finally it’s a pretty good bet —

wow great job on that PeeWee Herman tattoo
Some links from my blogroll:

Land Mammal
Largehearted [...]

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Poetry News:

When John Berryman wrote in his third Dream Song that ‘Rilke was a jerk’, a lot of readers of Rainer Maria Rilke in translation were probably relieved —

Smith earns award for second book of poetry —

His work is accessible yet progresses from the quotidian to the very moving —

Nobel writer Nadine [...]

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