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William Butler Yeats

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— With passion, precise imagery, astute description, the well-traveled poet covers a lot of ground —

— Some say that if we make a space for the person we wish for, then that spot may be suitably filled —

— As T. S. Eliot once remarked, we cannot say where technique begins or where it ends [...]

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Poetry News:

— Then there was a whole slew of psychological tests and all they could discover was that memorizing poetry helps you to memorize poetry —

— Creatures: Heart Medicine For Humans —

— Q&A: Poet Kevin Young —

— Patter up: Verse that covers all the bases —

— 2007 Georgia Literary Festival —

— Drunkards, hypocrites and [...]

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Poetry News:

What do Oprah and Atomic Scientists have in common? —

On the other hand, committed readers who take the time to find a literary blog may be more likely than a casual reader of the Sunday newspaper to buy a book —

Bell Buckle garden honors Maggi Vaughn —

He loved the shadows around [...]

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Poetry News:

William Butler Yeats’s “The Fiddler of Dooney” suggests that idea … —

Prof. Joe Heithaus Wins ‘Discovery’/The Nation Poetry Contest —

McBride‘ poetry leaves lasting impression —

Feelings of sadness for the passing of spring —

Stratford has celebrated Shakespeare’s birth and death date as St George’s Day for over a century [...]

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Poetry News:

The use of haiku, with its uncanny capacity to encapsulate an instant, seems ” oddly ” confined to baseball —

This image comes not from some poet’s overwrought fantasy but from a news story —

Why devote oneself to that aggressively minor genre, poetry … —

Magazine off to flying start —

He [the [...]

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