Poetry News For March 24, 2008
Poetry News:
- — Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has arrived in Europe to begin a new life, reports say, after protests by Muslim groups forced her into hiding in India. —
- — The Polish Immigrant, by Peter Skrzynecki —
- — Despite T.S. Eliot’s doubts that the traditional sonnet could figure importantly in modern poetry, it thrives to this day —
- — The Austin Peay State University Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts will host a reading by poet and translator Francisco Aragon —
- — Dylan daughter on US poetry tour —
- — A surprise for some will be a little known but incredibly talented poet named Charlotte Smith —
- — In a fog of megalomania, Robert Frost undertook a grueling trek to Russia to negotiate with Nikita Khrushchev —
- — Split This Rock’s Army of Poets Marches Into Town and Raises the Anti —
- — For a while, Wright’s phone message was, “At the sound of the gunshot, leave a message,” which effectively terrified the casual caller into hanging up. —
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