Poetry News:
- — Power Crazy Senior General Than Shwe: A chapbook edited by A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz —
- — Are we all clear on what a chapbook is? —
- — Taslima’s visa extended —
- — Elizabeth Bishop’s Writings Collected in New Volume [with audio & video] —
- — Upcoming exhibition: Notre Livre: À toute épreuve. A Collaboration between Joan Miró and Paul Éluard —
- — Police say magazine secretary embezzled $30k —
- — Robert Hass, later the US poet laureate, called ‘I Know a Man’ ‘the poem of the decade’ (he meant the 1950s) —
- — Earliest-known recording of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” found in Reed College Archives—audio to be posted at Reed’s Multimedia Site, Friday, February 15, 9 a.m. (PST) —
- — The day the persecuted Russian poet Joseph Brodsky went into exile, a recording of Mozart’s Divertimento in D (K. 136) was on his record player —
- — The pull of an abstraction —
- — Dear Mom: Someone stole my poem —
- — Proponents say the time is right for a poet laureate to … um, do what, exactly? —
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