Poetry News for October 1, 2007
Poetry News:
- — For many years now, the most popular poet in America has been a 13th-century mystical Muslim scholar —
- — Poetry of all kinds, but war poetry in particular, has a different significance for a cadet at West Point than it does for undergraduates at most other colleges and universities —
- — DePauw Professor’s Gift Creates Writing Professorship in His Late Wife’s Name —
- — Computer turns prosaic dunces into lyrical poets —
- — Celebrating Sylvia Plath’s 75th b’day —
- — University of Redlands professor wins 2007 PEN poetry award —
- — Cities of Refuge is an organization that takes in banned writers, hoping to bring them from hostile homelands to live and work in a U.S. city [and more] —
- — there is no denying that there has been racist undertow among some of America’s most distinguished poets —
- — Los Angeles poetry wanted —
- — Professor Laments Wall Of Privacy’s Rigidity —
- — a small band of skilled writers is learning to compose poems under an instructor whose first book of poetry was published this summer and is beginning to attract national attention [congrats] —
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