Poetry News For March 3, 2008
Poetry News:
- — Soon, she was weaving together poems about the employees’ experiences in America and at work at the factory —
- — In the meantime, his poetry is massively overrated: rhymes are amateur, scansion is sloppy and the content is unintelligible, bordering on insane —
- — Armed with magnifying glasses and mirrors, the censors are on a mission to root out hidden political messages in poems, novels, stories and advertisements —
- — Robert Frost, shown above circa 1915, wrote to his son that “you can say a lot in prose that verse won’t let you say.” —
- — Toledo helped shine light on gifted black poet —
- — “To me, this is the Grammy of poetry” —
- — College Restores Artwork by Poet E.E. Cummings —
- — the day Wallace Stevens punched out Ernest Hemingway —
- — Because language isn’t simple and poetry isn’t simply language, translation is never a zero-sum game —
- — Robert has good news, congrats —
- — Massive gathering celebrates Stegner as bard of the West —
- — Free online barcode generator for DIYers —
- — Edward Limonov, a poet-turned-populist, has joined the chess master Garry Kasparov to form a threadbare alliance that constitutes the only genuine opposition to President Vladimir Putin —
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