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Poetry News For April 25, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. Today’s poem is “An Ode to Drunkenness and Other Criminal Activities” by Rebecca Loudon
  2. U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic contributed original verse for the liner, in an appropriate fit between poet and musician
  3. New Buk on DVD
  4. Online conversation with Stryker brigade poet Brian Turner
  5. Al Young took to writing poetry, as he describes it in one poem, “to make out the sound of my own background music.”
  6. An opportunity to do something good
  7. What’s The Best Writing Tip of All Time?
  8. Argentine poet wins Spain’s highest literary honour
  9. Lifetime achievement ‘double’ for Cynthia Ozick
  10. Bullies, Addicts and Losers: A Poet Loves Them All
  11. A newly discovered cache of poetry video shorts

See you Monday.

ps. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled this week that evidence seized during arrests that are illegal under state law can still be used at trial.

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Poetry News For April 20, 2008 part 2

Poetry News:

  1. I think that you have to go on your nerve—that’s something Frank O’Hara used to say
  2. Most critics thought the young Barker a better poet than the young Thomas, and the latter, who called his rival’s poems “masturbatory monologues”, seems to have been madly jealous
  3. Definition of poetry splits the literati
  4. The Victorian poet William Barnes proposed wheelsaddle as an alternative to bicycle, and in the same vein suggested painlore, folkwain and nipperlings in lieu of pathology, omnibus and forceps
  5. Collected here are poems from 59 countries and territories spanning Asia and the widest definition of the Asian diaspora
  6. Blake Morrison celebrates livres d’artistes, texts have been cut open, painted over, burnt and locked up by the likes of Matisse and Hirst
  7. Q&A with California Poet Laureate Al Young
  8. WILD NIGHTS! Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway

Important net neutrality developments.

My 6 word story - thanks Thierry Brunet.

…catching up.

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