Poetry News For June 5, 2008
Poetry News:
- — Knox is at her best in poems that demonstrate an understanding of poetry —
- — More on the Frost “poetry punishment at the Poetry Foundation’s blog, Harriet —
- — John Ashbery’s Notes From the Air: Selected Later Poems and Robin Blaser’s The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser are the International and Canadian winners of the eighth annual Griffin Poetry Prize —
- — Is there an American poet more unique and incapable of characterization than James Tate? —
- — Putting Your Poetry in Order —
- — An extraordinary poet examines ordinary subjects —
- — In the introduction to ‘The Best American Erotic Poems from 1800 to the Present’ (Scribner, $30), the poet and critic David Lehman points to what he sees as a “vital American tradition of erotic poetry” —
- — Hollins University will receive a $5 million gift to establish what will be known as the Jackson Center for Creative Writing —
- — Exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen finds refuge in Sweden —
- — An athlete in the extreme sport of poetry —
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