Poetry News For October 23, 2009
- — Egypt police attack Poets against Succession meeting with Ayman Nour —
- — Leaping wolf snatches photo prize —
- — TS Eliot prize shortlists poets ‘who have dreamed and who have dared’ —
- — Meet The News 2 City Cam Hawk… —
- — How human nature turned one word into history’s longest thesaurus entry —
- — Colman published her first book ‘Borrowed Dress’ in 2001, which won the Feliz Pollock Prize for Poetry, and has won several other prizes and appeared in many journals, but this doesn’t reflect the breadth of her talent. —
- — Asahi Haikuist Network —
- — Gerard Butler Fights For Rome And Shakespeare Next —
- — Detroit entertainer Soupy Sales is dead at age 83 —
- — A skeleton found in the Utah wilderness last year was not that of Everett Ruess, a legendary wanderer of the 1930s, despite initial forensic tests that seemed to have solved an enduring mystery —
- — Ad Rant: Levi’s celebrates America the beautiful…with $238 jeans and a greedy treasure hunt —
- — Brian Turner’s post, “To Bedlam and Back,” which discussed the challenges faced by soldiers who are asked to make a quick re-adjustment to the civilian world, elicited comments from many readers, including Vietnam veterans writing about their own experiences of return. —
Thanks for the birthday wishes on Facebook. 
Weird. I posted those Whitman Levi’s commercials on my blog Friday, too.