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Poetry News:

— We are each a bundle of nervous impulses: to fidget, to gossip, to be distracted, to inquire, and especially to satisfy our scalding curiosity by looking at anything we’re told not to look at —

— Big is still best but not everything Americans do is supersized - a rich tradition of shorter verse [...]

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Poetry News:

— The need for warmth is more important than people who have never been truly cold know —

— This great poets list has only one woman. About right, too —

— The poetry journal as mixtape —

— Two things often said about great poets are that they create the taste by which they are appreciated, [...]

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Poetry News:

— Post-apocalypse, Poetry, and Robots —

— Changing Hands Bookstore hosts a handful of acclaimed poets (all female) who contributed to Letters to the World: The Wom-Po Anthology —

— People find what they lack in themselves in this object of adoration —

— Iranian poet Simin Behbahani is the first recipient of Stanford’s Bita Prize for [...]

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Poetry News:

— Their elders will not be quick to applaud either their language or their sentiments: both grate harshly on a pre-War ear —

— Poetry workshop: This month Peter Bennet invites you to enter the moonlit world of Walter de la Mare —

— The poisoned wedding dress —

— Military junta bans 19 writers and performers; [...]

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Poetry News:

— Thank you very much for inviting me to speak about Poetry and Power —

— the latest wrangle in the US reflects a wider problem in deciding what’s good poetry and what’s not —

— VA Tech professor writes poems about shooting —

— Poets are good at discerning life within what otherwise might [...]

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Poetry News:

The timid male would be advised to stand well back when a female threatened is on the rampage —

Milan has begun preparations for the 100th anniversary of the birth of Futurism —

Cardiff poem is too tiny to be seen —

Salter and Leithauser are acclaimed poets, with over a dozen volumes and [...]

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Poetry News:

Penn online poetry project rooted in culture of accessibility —

‘Every essay is like an adventure’ —

Lauded poet stays positive —

the current obsession with plagiarism stands at the precise intersection of the cult of celebrity and what he calls “the cult of originality” —

What the Romans did for Julie Andrews — [...]

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