Poetry News for October 20, 2007
Poetry News:
- — Charles Nicholl pieces together the untold story of a Jacobean court case and asks what it reveals about the ordinary life of ‘a certain Mr Shakespeare’ —
- — Free Verse Hampers Poets and Is Undemocratic; Josephine Preston Peabody Says That, Nevertheless, the War Is Making Poetry Less Exclusive and the Imagiste Cult Will Be Swept Away —
- — If I’ve succeeded at writing an effective persona poem, I am not quite the same person I was at the outset —
- — The Baghdad Blues is his latest homage to the country’s traumatized capital, though this discomfiting collection of poems is much less political than the film —
- — A treasure trove of poet’s voices —
- — Fellowship Of Southern Writers Elects First Board —
…off to look up “Jacobean” LOL.
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