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Poetry News:

— Unfortunately, poetry in general has a bad reputation —

— new lit mag alert —

— The Griffin Poetry Prize Announces the 2008 Canadian and International Shortlist —

— She did say, though, that her interest in cryptography, the study of coded writing, influenced her poems, along with her love of puzzles —

— Never has so [...]

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Poetry News:

— Who can explain why the practice of poetry has become the object of so much satire and snide dismissal? [link found here thanks] —

— The Poem as Comic Strip #6 —

— For this, my farewell “Poet’s Choice” column, here are two poems related by a form: the sonnet —

— He is the leading [...]

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Poetry News:

— Psychologists Nathan DeWall of the University of Kentucky and Roy Baumeister of Florida State University ran three experiments to study existential dread in the laboratory —

— Three Reasons Why We Don’t Read Poetry —

— I guess this collection is about the shadowy presences and outlaw characters who haunt the margins of American, particularly [...]

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Poetry News:

— We knew he was a genius all along [and more here]—

— Abu Dhabi TV crowns ‘Prince of Poets’ —

— his work draws parallels between the depiction of the war heroes in the Iliad and the Odyssey and the experiences of his patients —

— It was damned rot — rot of the worst sort [...]

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Poetry News:

— The Husband Tries to Write to the Disappearing Wife by Jeannine Hall Gailey [congrats Jeannine] —

— ” … he cut through all the rubbish and I think that should be admired” —

— Art work marks end of poet’s walk —

— Momaday named state’s centennial poet laureate —

— I’d be out playing and I [...]

Continue reading “Poetry News for July 14, 2007” »

Poetry News:

— Didi Menendez is reviewing online lit mags —

— Poets Walk Across Bridge; Read Whitman, Hart Crane —

— Biggest literary prize goes to little-known Norwegian —

— Poet William Meredith will be announced as a finalist for the National Book Awards —

— Court says Strauss heirs must pay “Rosenkavalier” royalties to heirs of librettist —

— [...]

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Poetry News:

— Poets Speak Out —

— We want to believe the omission was related to space and not because city leaders thought it was too gay —

— In 1923, Alfred A. Knopf published the first book of poems by Wallace Stevens —

— Take 20-minute trip to poet’s birthplace —

— The great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova [...]

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The U.S. poet laureate and winner of this year‘ Pulitzer Prize in poetry is a Unitarian Universalist
The poet Walt Whitman gazes with affection at his companion, Peter Doyle, a streetcar conductor
Here, Bullet, reflects his war-time experiences in graceful and unflinching poetry
The first modern dictionary of the English language was an extraordinary achievement, even for a [...]

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