Poetry News For March 29, 2009
- — Larry John Meyers hacks at tobacco while performing Wendell’s poem “Rising” in a technical rehearsal of Wild Blessings. —
- — Poetry not all unicorns and flowers, says poet laureate Kay Ryan —
- — Poet Dunya Mikhail used her poetry as a medium to express her objections to Hussein’s regime before she was placed on Hussein’s list of enemies —
- — The Oddest Book Titles Have Their Aficionados, Too —
- — And seriously, the economy could be worse verse. That’s what Planet Money editor Jonathan Kern tells us, in his villanelle for the economic crisis. —
- — Although National Book Award winner and former Maryland poet laureate Lucille Clifton is a woman of few words, she makes each of them count. —
- — Poet’s Choice: Michael Collier ‘An Individual History’ By Michael Collier —
- — Elvis Presley’s Bird Murder Poem Sells for $20,000 —
- — He was, as American poet Campbell McGrath has written, “president of Pablo Neruda Enterprises / director of the great public works project: Pablo Neruda.” —
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