Poetry News For August 9, 2008
Poetry News:
- — Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dead at 67 —
- — Assessing Kay Ryan, our new poet laureate —
- — McSweeney’s Rejects Mike Mussina’s Seventh Consecutive Submission —
- — Like Ginsberg - like Pablo Neruda, like Walt Whitman - Herrera found such forms in long lists, long lines, long poems made out of short parts —
- — The Voices and Visions videos are available online via learner.org! Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, Wallace Stevens, etc —
- — It’s that same sense of dignity that Hayden brought to this next poem, which praises a different kind of sacrifice for another ancestor of his: the freed slave Frederick Douglass —
- — Portrait of Calliope (detail), muse of poetry, found at Pompeii guest house —
Tags: Juan Felipe Herrera, Kay Ryan, Mahmoud Darwish, poet, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Robert Hayden
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