Poetry News:

1. — Opening Day in the Motor City —
2. — These 2 links might not be safe for work: UNM’s director of creative writing said she will resign because her colleague has not been punished for posing in sexually explicit photos with students. and more here —
3. — The sheer aesthetic appeal of the poem, to which critics have paid too little attention and given too little credit, transcends, time and time again —
4. — A poet hits with an ear for music —
5. — Documentary records life of poet Stanley Kunitz —
6. — Daniil Kharms’ miniatures might well be required reading for anyone out to revolutionize literature —
7. — Meet the 2008 Guggenheim Fellows in Poetry —

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Poetry should have punch. It should jab, it should undercut, clinch in the corners and consider in hard times the head butt

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