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Poetry News For April 3, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. Some poems seem inaccessible. But when one resonates, it changes our perceptions.
  2. Poet Cathy Smith Bowers has made a career of nudging writers along
  3. An icon sees poetic justice — and a conspiracy
  4. Fairfield U offers new MFA in writing
  5. An interview with poet Jorie Graham
  6. Writers awarded Stegner Fellowships

Nikki Giovanni at TSU today has been rescheduled, TBA.

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Poetry News for November 14, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. Says “Vers Libre” Is Prose, Not Poetry; Robert Underwood Johnson Deplores Excesses of Ultra-Modern Writers in Rebellion Against What They Call Tyranny of Form By Joyce Kilmer
  2. Working Collaboration at The Wave Poetry Farm
  3. the Supreme Court refused Tuesday to hear an appeal from poet Amiri Baraka
  4. Two Requiems, different paths
  5. The Double Life of Robert Louis Stevenson
  6. Former VT State Poet a finalist for National Book Awards and also winners probably announced here tonight —

Keep your fingers crossed for me today.

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Poetry News for August 23, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. We old white geezers never heard of him until last month when his suit against the governor of New Jersey reached the U.S. Supreme Court.
  2. Trial Run for LongPen in Bookstores
  3. …villanelles aren’t standard fare on the wings of most category B prisons
  4. 2007 National Book Festival
  5. Poetry-only shop well-versed in success
  6. The Problem Solvers investigate Vanity Press companies
  7. Sharing memories of poet Anne Sexton

Still over 100F. Ugh.

Yesterday I was walking to my car after work when I saw a giant black mushroom cloud. Bert the Turtle would have been very disappointed. I just stood there and did not duck and cover. (And I am old enough to have experienced nuke drills in school.)

Some adorability.

Does anyone have a really good (tomato) gazpacho recipe they would care to share?

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Poetry News for August 5, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. ‘Penelopiad’ Opens on Stage
  2. What makes Stevens tough to interpret is his unique diction, which is a mixture of the hymn, the ornate and the bizarre
  3. Inductee Sanders turns poetic
  4. In the 1960s, Amiri Baraka converted from Greenwich Village Beat poet to Harlem agitator, influencing a generation of young black writers
  5. Visiting poets use tools like ‘wormhole haiku’ to inspire young writers
  6. Here is an awesome one minute trailer for the Roethke Readings
  7. How does one journey from opacity to transparency?
  8. what a gifted stand-up artist or actor does with face, body and voice, poetry does with the rhythms of words and the rhythms of thought, in language

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Yay!: my new niece, Abigail, and some word puzzles. (And physics.)

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