Poetry News:
- — It may be argued, then, that Plath’s “lasting achievement” was her ability to combine the personal and the mythical in her poetry, thereby endowing this with a timeless and “relevant” literary effect —
- — A Russian Poet Unpeels Her Many Lives —
- — Rare Emily Dickinson photo(?) purchased on Ebay —
- — Intelligence And Rhythmic Accuracy Go Hand In Hand —
- — Poetry workshop: Forward prize winner Matthew Francis invites readers to conjure sense impressions with metaphor and simile —
- — In Paris in the 1930s he helped found the journal Black Student, which gave birth to the idea of “negritude,” a call to blacks to cultivate pride in their heritage —
- — World-famous filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami is convinced that one of the problems Iranians encounter in understanding poetry is that they pay too much attention to rhythm —
- — The Pulitzer jurists for this year’s poetry prize evidently felt the pain of Philip Schultz —
- — Frequently asked questions about the business of verse By Robert Pinsky —
I have torn labrum in my hip & a cane now. I can do this. I just had to be freaked out for a while. I finally got an appt to the pain clinic & that is making me feel better — OK there are some tools and stuff out there.
I feel full of gristle.
edit: p.s. laughing is good.
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