Poetry News For April 7, 2008
Poetry News:
- — With this collection, Grace Paley ends as she began, as a poet. —
- — Lynn Neary speaks with Nigel McLoughlin about his poetry and the Northern Ireland peace process —
- — English-language poets are increasingly fascinated with the syllabic forms of Latin, Romance languages and Japanese. Can you write a good syllabic poem? —
- — A poem written by an imprisoned Chinese journalist is following the Olympic torch around the globe. —
- — For the past three years, a half-dozen handsome new books of poetry have been sent into the world annually by a new Seattle publisher —
- — The banana of God —
- — Take my book. It’s free. —
- — Prince of nerves and manners, precise poet of desolations and furies —
- — Jorie Graham’s latest poems focus on the possibility of ecological disaster. —
Tags: Grace Paley, Jorie Graham, Joshua Beckman, Matthew Francis, Michael Hofmann, Nigel McLoughlin, Shi Tao, wave books
