Poetry News for November 12, 2007
Poetry News:
- — Political rhymes: duple meter vs. iambic pentameter —
- — the Grand Prize for inspired concept and execution goes to… —
- — Joe Torre Haiku Contest —
- — Poet awarded $75,000 fellowship —
- — This lies at the very heart of Ted Hughes’s vision of life, and made him a much more appropriate laureate for the Thatcher years than sad old Larks in his cycle-clips. —
- — [ha that kid plagiarized a Tom Lehrer song] —
- — a sharp reminder that poetry is not merely good thoughts well expressed —
- — “Evasive Idealism” Handicaps Our Literature; Ellen Glasgow Declares That the American Public Demands Sham Optimism Instead of Straightforward Facing of Life’s Facts By Joyce Kilmer —
- — Poet Paul Muldoon and Jacki Lyden discover Finnegan’s musicality as they listen to an archival recording of James Joyce reading from his final novel —
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