Poetry News For April 29, 2008
Poetry News:
- — These aren’t pastoral poems delighting in nature; they’re set in a muddy town of drunken fights —
- — Try doing it, and what you’ll end up with is cheap imitation Frank O’Hara —
- — Thieves steal homeless poet’s words —
- — Agenda will celebrate its half centenary next year, having been founded by William Cookson and Ezra Pound in 1959 —
- — Reading the work of other contemporary writers makes your own work derivative, say some. —
- — Gardens and their flowers have inspired poets down the ages, but will they inspire you to your own florid contributions … —
- — He discusses life as a poet in Pittsburgh, “where no one is a stranger,” and shares some of his work [links to MP3] —
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I think Verse Daily forgot to pay their domain renewal. Or Paul Guest broke it. He was the last poet I saw up there.
Or maybe they threw in the towel.
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