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Anne Spencer

Poetry News:

1. — Well, William Logan is back —
2. — Amazon seems each year to go from one publisher to another, making increasing demands in order to achieve richer terms at our expense and sometimes at yours [link found here thank you] also see Borders Urged to Consider Sale to Amazon. I didn’t know Borders went up for sale in March. —
3. — Meet Raymond McDaniel, poet and University of Michigan instructor. —
4. — But there have lately been a number of feminist readings of Milton, and though they can’t explain away that primal inequality, certainly they have a lot to point to, such as Eve’s argument for independence in Eden —
5. — So where do poems come from? —
6. — Poet’s first collection a remarkable beginning —
7. — ‘Papers’ doesn’t quite capture new U.Va. collection —
8. — Bob Dylan is a real genius – just not when he has a paint brush in his hand —
9. — The poems in The Mechanical Bird explore the natural and man-made worlds with an imaginative mix of fact and invention —

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Poetry News:

1. — Cornelius Eady and Toi Derricotte will receive the 2008 Elizabeth Kray Award for service to the field of poetry —
2. — Homage to Pasternak, With Piano and Poetry —
3. — Meanwhile, the boxes containing the legacy of the late poet — the first black woman and first Virginian to have her work included in the Norton Anthology of American Poetry — had become nomads —
4. — Alleged molester on FBI Most Wanted list faces NH judge —
5. — New Audio: Jackson Mac Low reads “Stein 100: A Feather Likeness of the Justice Chair” —
6. — Everybody’s sad, except really dumb people —
7. — Poet Honor Moore created waves with her memoir that in part talks about the double life of her father Paul Moore, an Episcopal bishop —

Poetry News:

1. — Writing tops poll of ideal jobs —
2. — Prolific poet was a gracious critic —
3. — Mary Jo Salter and Brad Leithauser, a couple with individual success, will write the next chapter of Hopkins’ Writing Seminars —
4. — Conversation With a Poet Laureate —
5. — Rare Anne Spencer collection headed to UVa —
6. — Renowned poet and Tennessee native Nikki Giovanni will return to her alma mater this fall as a distinguished visiting professor at Fisk University —

March 20-23, 2008 “You are invited to our nation‘ capital for a festival that celebrates our great tradition of poetry of witness and resistance.”

“There were no differences by political party in the percentage of those who said they had not read at least one book” … and One in Four Read No Books Last Year

Evidently, lit mag distributor Bernhard DeBoer has gone out of business.

Here is an OPML file of my poetry-related blog subscriptions. I guess you can right-click to download it. You can import it into Bloglines or Google Reader or other blog readers. I recently switched from Bloglines to Google reader entirely because Bloglines kept giving me old feeds.