Poetry News For May 2, 2008
Poetry News:
- — Her early writing is set in a structured style with familiar rhyming schemes, yet its tone foreshadows her charged works to come —
- — Consistencies Found In Synaesthesia: Letter ‘A’ Is Red For Many; ‘V’ Is Purple —
- — Poet Giovanni honored with historic marker —
- — Poems not only rhymed but the syllables of each line were exactly calculated; to make matters trickier, there were tonal patterns as well, dictated by the pitch accents of the language. —
- — Though he is best known for his medicine–related poems, Peter Pereira successfully exploits his devotion to anagrams and other word games in poems that celebrate the malleabality and surprises possible in language —
- — Twas the year 2008, when the world’s worst poet got his day - a little late —
- — The true legacy of the inventor of LSD, who died yesterday aged 102, is in the music, literature and visual arts that were produced as a result of acid —
- — The problem of describing trees —
This country sure is going to hell in a handbasket. Maybe someone else will do an Idiocracy-type movie that won’t be as terrible.
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