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— Her early writing is set in a structured style with familiar rhyming schemes, yet its tone foreshadows her charged works to come —

— Consistencies Found In Synaesthesia: Letter ‘A’ Is Red For Many; ‘V’ Is Purple —

— Poet Giovanni honored with historic marker —

— Poems not only rhymed but the syllables of each [...]

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Poetry News:

— I think that you have to go on your nerve—that’s something Frank O’Hara used to say —

— Most critics thought the young Barker a better poet than the young Thomas, and the latter, who called his rival’s poems “masturbatory monologues”, seems to have been madly jealous —

— Definition of poetry splits the literati [...]

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Poetry News:

— There should be a place for more original poetry to be posted and shared - let’s start right here —

— Needed: Contemporary Visual Poetry for Poetry —

— Psalms offer source of inspiration for prayer —

— University Comes To Aid Of Literary Magazine —

— Here are 15 short poems as animated films. They’re the [...]

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Poetry News:

— Poetry should have punch. It should jab, it should undercut, clinch in the corners and consider in hard times the head butt —

— The mother of so much —

— MLB Poetry Preview: Minnesota Twins —

— English poetry masters: Percy Bysshe Shelley —

— Call for Entries to the Festival of Visual Poetry 2008 [...]

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Poetry News:

— Poetry Chronicle —

— Poems on the frontiers; a lobster lesson on the sea
— Jenny Holzer Makes Light of Poems and Beats Swords Into Paintings —

— Pakistani’s Poem Offers Hope in Despairing Time —

— In ‘Telephone Ringing,’ Adrienne Rich makes music of words —

— Here is Arizona poet Steve Orlen’s lovely tribute to the [...]

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Poetry News:

— Two hundred and fifty favored subscribers received a bewildering book last week —

— The Library is on Fire —

— Joel Lipman confirmed as Lucas County poet laureate —

— Poetry Roundup —

— Spam, spam, spam, spam, and poetry —

— Amazon.com Buys J.K. Rowling Fairy Tale for 1.95 Million Pounds —

On Tuesday, The Plain [...]

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Poetry News:

— Paul Guest, a poet who teaches at West Georgia, will be in New York Wednesday to accept the prestigious $50,000 Whiting Prize and Whiting Award Winners Announced — [congrats]

— Indian politician and wife jailed for murder plot against Hindu poetess —

— Solitary Woman in a Glass House: Visual Translations [...]

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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:

— Scratching poems on cell floors, or making ink from the brick powder of the walls, Burmese writers have managed to continue writing despite imprisonment and censorship —

— Haiku Poet Documented Life in Japanese Camps —

— To write vital poems, Notley has said, “it’s necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against … everything.” [...]

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Poetry News:

— The mystery of how we read a sentence has been unlocked by scientists —

— In recent years literary research has come to focus more and more on visual forms, and digital poetry brings to a head this concern with the visual —

— To the Death…May the Best Writer Win —

— Poetcast: September 10th, [...]

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Poetry News:

In an age when writing that isn’t downright naive tends to have been plunged in the acid bath of irony… —

Can visual poetry appeal to connoisseurs of art as well as the masses and thereby create a market for itself? —

Vietnam recognises jailed poets —

Poets & Writers Magazine selected Blue-Tail [...]

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Poetry News:

Poet McHugh, who teaches at the University of Washington, is one of nine writers named a USA Fellow this year —

It’s often said Australian poetry has fallen on hard times. True, if you think what corporate publishers have stopped doing for poetry; not true once you count the small presses…. —

Misprint Is [...]

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“For me, writing a poem is like being in a sci-fi movie where I”™m the disposable ensign trying to get into the secret chamber and I have to figure out the alien runes carved into the wall to get the thing open before the green gas asphyxiates me.” [more]

Barbara Guest has passed away.

Confusion arises over [...]

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