Poetry News for July 30, 2007
Poetry News:
- — The hijacker of everyday logic —
- — Writers and Poets on Film —
- — Pothole Poet Guilty —
- — Putting Feelings Into Words Produces Therapeutic Effects In The Brain —
- — Here is a poem by Wislawa Szymborska, translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh —
- — Stage work dissects complexity and demons of poet Roethke —
- — But I had recited three poems, each with its own theme —
- — it was Raymond Queneau, founder of Oulipo (Workshop for Potential Literature), though, who wrote the first proper example of the genre in 1967 —
- — In recent collections, poets from Ireland and Scotland artfully offer truth, wisdom, and remembrance —
- — Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter and Richard Rodgers collectively more than doubled the world’s supply of singable tunes, he declares —
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