Poetry News For May 16, 2008
Poetry News:
- — State names new poet laureate —
- — Readers Not Wanted: Student Writers Fight to Keep Their Work Off the Web —
- — New book by former NEA chairman gives vision for arts in America; Bill Ivey of Vanderbilt’s Curb Center is author of Arts, Inc. —
- — Writer and poet Firas Saad was sentenced to four years in prison on 9 April on the same charges as Tariq Biassi —
- — Poems by the man ridiculed as “the world’s worst poet” are expected to fetch up to £6,500 at auction. —
- — A former court poet for North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has become a best-selling author and media sensation in South Korea, where his poems about the brutality of everyday life in North Korea have now been published for the first time —
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