Poetry News For March 1, 2008
Poetry News:
- — April is National Poetry Month. We will be celebrating it with a cover story on March 30, so we are inviting kids 13 and younger to submit their poems to be considered for inclusion —
- — Arab ‘Poet Idol’ lures 70 million viewers —
- — A good volume of selected poems should be more than a gathering of popular favourites —
- — And now, in this 13th year of the column, I am delighted to announce our new steward — a writer variously described as “a spitfire” and “an inspiring teacher” — the incomparable Mary Karr —
- — Poetic Ancestry: Mentors and Tormentors —
- — She is also the editor of the literary journal ‘The Fairy Tale Review,’ but said she never set out to write a children’s book —
