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Poetry News:

1. — The Poetry Center’s American Poetry Archives is one of the most extensive literary collections in the U.S., home to approximately 3,000 original recordings captured at the Poetry Center’s live poetry reading series —
2. — Man gets suspended term, Frost homework in vandalism case —
3. — He and his wife, Tibetan poet and essayist Tsering Woeser, have been under house arrest in Beijing since the protests began —
4. — Ó Searcaigh in ‘an abyss’ after documentary —
5. — As for the first example, yes, a poem is marketing material to drive awareness of a poet —
6. — Backwards City Review is going out of business & Poetry magazine is now accepting electronic subs. —
7. — Nominations To Begin For 2008 Poet Laureate of The Blogosphere cast your vote —

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To whomever arrived here by searching “Did Anne Bradstreet win any awards?” … Thank you for asking! Yes! She did:

Vaſſar Miller Prize

Good luck on your homework!

Poetry News:

1. — Poetry should have punch. It should jab, it should undercut, clinch in the corners and consider in hard times the head butt —
2. — The mother of so much —
3. — MLB Poetry Preview: Minnesota Twins —
4. — English poetry masters: Percy Bysshe Shelley —
5. — Call for Entries to the Festival of Visual Poetry 2008 —
6. — It’s a great shame that the work of a great poet has spawned so many mawkish imitations —
7. — Revealed: how poet set up ‘charity’ fund —

Oklahoma! where the wind comes sweepin’ down [state legislator Sally Kern's] brain

Have a great weekend. No news this weekend.

Poetry News:

1. — Usually when I think, “Here’s something a poem needs to be written about,” I get as far away from pen and paper as I possibly can —
2. — Here is a poem giving pi to 21 digits when you replace each word with the number of letters in that word —
3. — Small Press and Publishing Panel —
4. — I am Cathal’s publisher for 20 years and I don’t think his poems should be used in this film. I have asked for them to be removed…. —
5. — Forage a fierce achievement —
6. — Vanishing Point by Robert Thomas —
7. — Why you should be enraged by literary liars —
8. — the 100 best last lines from novels —

Someone arrived at this blog yesterday via a Google search for “poem, the shepherd to hip love” and that made me laugh. Hmm “S” and “P” are kinda far away on the keyboard.

Maybe that poem appears in an anthology alongside “Stopping By The Foods On A Snowy Evening.” Feel free to post, in the comments, what other titles appear in that anthology. That cracks me up. And I could use some levity.

Poetry News:

1. — Written in English, the collection gathers 25 Latino poets from across the country and gives each a hefty eight to 10 pages to showcase their work —
2. — Houses at Night: An interview with John Ashbery —
3. — Might not be safe for work nor good taste …but I am easily amused —
4. — Ó Searcaigh poems may be taken off curriculum —
5. — The home where the late poet Charles Bukowski used to lay his oft-drunken head is on its way to becoming an official Los Angeles city monument —
6. — Podcast: “On Writing with Catherine Wagner” [mp3] —
7. — Professor of English Michael Harper is receiving the Poetry Society of America’s Frost Medal for a lifetime of distinguished contribution to American poetry —

(I had a family emergency (actually Darryl did) & also my front tooth cracked for no logical reason Wed.) Sheesh. I don’t think I’ll make it to the emergency dentist appt this morning because of some ice that is coming. We’ll see. It is not crazy pain but I would really not have a front tooth with a crack in it, though you can’t really tell because it is near the side. Dentists are expensive. And my teeth are an integral part of my face.

Poetry News:

1. — Barack Obama’s creditable poems are in an erratic tradition of political versifying —
2. — ‘Lap-sonnets’ for Valentine’s Day —
3. — When a professor invents a machine that writes books, and then uses that machine to write more than 200,000 different books, there arises the question, “Why?” —
4. — Sincerity and Its Discontents in American Poetry Now —
5. — Poet John Franklin Dandridge kneels next to his “Clothing Metaphor” —
6. — Poet denies exploiting young men —

Poetry News:

1. — The Three Graces [may require bug me not - thanks for the link, Jim] —
2. — From this we can conclude, to put it baldly: many writers verbally subvert corporate mentalities, but this poetry is outright sabotage. [might not be safe for work] —
3. — Two men face arson charges over fire at ‘Mary Little Lamb’ home —
4. — One of Ireland’s best-known poets today denied he sexually exploited young men as police investigated allegations against him —
5. — Adversity predicted for Year of the Rat —
6. — Poetess garners audience support in TV competition —

Poetry News:

1. — Blogs versus Print: is there a prejudice? [and more, kinda, about the legitimacy of blogging.] —
2. — Elizabeth Bishop, in her early 20s, doing cart-wheels across the field at the farm —
3. — English Professor Sets Poetry Wheels in Motion for Luzerne County Residents —
4. — Poet Cathal O’Searcaigh wins €20,000 literary prize —
5. — Anna Akhmatova’s Portrait by Modigliani Presented to Russia —
6. — Fascinating —
7. — Len Sousa’s Poetry/Music Mashup [wandered there via a link here thank you] —
8. — These words gave me hope for humanity —

So why haven’t you read this book yet? Mmm.