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— Some of his latest readings include the collected works of American poet Robert Creeley and poet Lyn Hejinian’s book “My Life.” —

— American Ghazals —

— Hickory poet Scott Owens will have his third chapbook of poems published online in April by the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature —

— A copy of a [...]

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— rarely has a work of literature ignited or inspired a new sporting event —

— he reviewed four of the original Frost notebooks housed in Boston University’s archives and found “roughly one thousand” errors in Mr. Faggen’s work —

— ‘Poe Toaster’ avoids being spotted at Edgar Allan Poe’s grave —

— Confrontation, the award-winning literary [...]

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Poetry News:

— Ugly Duckling Presse began as a college 'zine in 1993 and evolved into its present form as a nonprofit art and publishing collective in 2000 —

— Established in 2004, the Pegasus Awards are a series of annual prizes with an emphasis on new awards to under-recognized poets and types of poetry —

— the [...]

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It really seemed to be rather arbitrary that you would distinguish a concrete poem by Ian Hamilton Finley from a text-based work by Lawrence Weiner, to use two artist examples —

Frank Bidart’s services to Robert Lowell have been many —

Sieving her lines into ever-firmer leanness from collection to collection, she offsets any [...]

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Poetry News:

Death of Dylan … ‘a flamboyant, eloquent, Bohemian genius’ —

There were 69 available creative-writing jobs advertised across the nation in October, up from . . . . —

Just six per cent of people UK-wide can confidently sing the Robert Burns favourite —

Forget the gym, flex your poetic muscle instead —

Appalachian [...]

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Approaching Planet Ishmael Reed, you encounter an upper atmosphere of weighty scholarship, wanton hearsay, rapturous praise and outraged condemnation (bug me not)

Speaking of new poetry, “Legitimate Dangers” offers about 350 poems by 85 poets…according to the book’s subtitle, are American poets of the new century

“A Little White Shadow” is Mary Ruefle’s experiment in “found [...]

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