Poetry News For April 22, 2008
Poetry News:
- — We are each a bundle of nervous impulses: to fidget, to gossip, to be distracted, to inquire, and especially to satisfy our scalding curiosity by looking at anything we’re told not to look at —
- — Big is still best but not everything Americans do is supersized - a rich tradition of shorter verse percolates through to us today —
- — Palestinian-American doctor turns suffering into song, wins top U.S. prize and a book review —
- — Listen again: BBC censors Auden quip —
- — The Economics Of Self-Publishing —
- — National Poetry Award to go to VT and UVA professors —
- — The author of three collections, Brock-Broido has been praised for poems that are “gorgeous and mournful, ornate and deeply felt” —
And the hits keep coming … hubby laid off from his 5 night a week gig at the swanky place. I guess people aren’t being swanky as much these days.
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