Poetry News For December 17, 2007
Poetry News:
- — Though still a student at Lincoln University, he has already published two books of poems, The Weary Blues and Fine Clothes to the Jew —
- — Prize-Winning Poet Robert Hass On American Poetry, Bob Dylan, Impact of ‘The Big Lebowski’ —
- — Singing the songs of love —
- — Anne Stevenson: the secret life of a poet —
- — Sometimes, as in Jill Rosser’s new collection of poetry, it’s a comic, irritable gesture that recalls the abyss a footstep away —
- — While many young people countrywide are venturing into the music industry to earn a living, Mochedisi in Kasane is curving a niche for himself as a praise poet. [more about praise poetry in southern Africa here and over here and some here. —
- — For the second year in a row, an Indianapolis writer will have had a work selected for the annual Best American Poetry series —
- — From hospital room, Diane Middlebrook recalls meeting Ted Hughes —
- — Poet, biographer, feminist Diane Middlebrook dies of cancer at 68 —
- — Poetry lovers, put this on your list —
- — What a lineup of gallery artists: five Nobel laureates, five poet laureates, and more Pulitzer Prize-winning and National Book Award-winning writers than a curator can count —
- — Writer discovers poem on A Prairie Home Companion —
- — It is one of the weirder ironies of literary history that the experiment of modernist poetry in English was launched by a pair of Americans living in London who had little but contempt for the complacent, hide-bound literary scene in which they moved —
- — I had stumbled upon the underground alliterative tradition of English poetry —
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