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Poetry News for November 15, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. — SERIAL SYSTEM HURTS OUR NOVELS; And Too Many American Writers Want to Own Automobiles, Says George Barr McCutcheon By Joyce Kilmer —

  2. — Song of Herself —

  3. — Robert Hass — Winner 2007 National Book Awards — Poetry —

  4. — How to Win a National Book Award in Five Easy Steps —

  5. — Leading Neuroscientist Seeks Neural And Biological Basis For Creativity, Beauty And Love —

  6. — creativity has become a feelgood term intended to make us all feel a bit better about what we do —

  7. — Kate Light gave a reading on Nov. 13, 2007, in Buttrick Hall as part of the Gertrude Vanderbilt and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Program. This podcast includes selections from her three books - Gravity’s Dream, Open Slowly and Falling Bodies. [links to MP3] —

  8. — when the sisters were 17 and 20 years old, they were sent to Nazi forced labor camps … where they wrote these poems —

  9. — since somebody published a poem I wrote when I was 19, which has been mocked, thoroughly, I don’t think those are going to be appearing anytime soon —

  10. — Scoop: Viggo Mortensen Is Edgar Allan Poe —

  11. — Lee Ranaldo Pens Poetry Book Based on E-mail Spam —

  12. — Mark Jarman’s newest collection continues to confound a secular critical world —

Have a good weekend — see you next week. :)

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Poetry News for June 26, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. — Let’s do it, let’s fall in luff [link via Avoiding the Muse thank you] —

  2. — Here’s a tortoise shell that reminds the poet of a soldier’s helmet and which leads me to a pet hate: computer games —

  3. — A two-century jinx on a potential literary goldmine held true today —

  4. — Galway Kinnell has recently turned 80, making him - with Richard Wilbur and John Ashbery - one of the grand old men of American poetry —

  5. — “At eighteen … [Obama] was already a much better poet than our former Secretary of Defense William Cohen, who keeps publishing terrible poetry” —

  6. — Jurek told BlackAmericaWeb.com that Scott-Heron was released by the New York State Department of Corrections about a month ago —

  7. — Baghdad suicide blast kills Iraqi poet who urged national unity —

  8. — Moazzam Begg, a former Guantanamo detainee whose poetry is featured in the collection, talks with Anthony Brooks —

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Poetry News For March 29, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. Lannan Podcasts - B.H Fairchild with R.S. Gwynn [link goes to a web page not a sound file] —

  2. Lannan Podcasts - Charles Simic with David Lehman [link goes to a web page not a sound file] —

  3. Sasha Dugdale assesses the poets who made the shortlist of her exercise on dramatic poetry —

  4. Embarrassing Obama: He Was an Angsty Poet Once —

  5. His first book was a chapbook by radical poet Tom McGrath, during the Viet Nam War —

  6. Shakespeare and the Jesuits, Auden’s whereabouts, Archie Andrews, etc —

Good one.

No news tomorrow because of the Conference on Baseball in Literature and Culture. Wish me luck.

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