Poetry News For July 28, 2009
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- — Joe Milford Show: Joe Milford Hosts John Dorsey —
- — Like rutted footpaths, the poems coiling through Bernadette Mayer’s newest collection, Poetry State Forest, steers readers into the scrubby undergrowth. —
- — The “Ugly Laws” declared that “No person who is diseased, maimed, or deformed so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object shall expose himself to public view.” —
- — The 2008 issue of Prescott College’s literary magazine “Alligator Juniper” received the AWP Director’s Prize for Undergraduate Literary Magazines for the third time in the magazine’s 13-year history. —
- — “Today is the day I’ve waited for all my life.” —
- — Joe Milford Hosts John Dorsey – Jul 26,2009
from Joe Milford Show [mp3] — - — cartoon —
- — The University of Delaware Library has acquired the papers of poet, memoirist, novelist, and painter Alan Kaufman, who is associated with the Spoken Word movement and the exploration of Jewish identity through contemporary alternative culture —
- — As the death of Harry Patch brings an era to a close, Andrew Motion talks about being a war poet without a war, measuring himself up against his father’s bravery and the poetry in the end of a line —
- — Poem of the week: Some Incidents in the Life of My Uncle Arly by Edward Lear —
