Poetry News:
- — “The fact that your taste in poetry is exectable shouldn’t prevent us from having a vermouth together” —
- — No contemporary poet is famous, but some are less unfamous than others —
- — US poet and novelist Bukowski’s poems to be translated in Iran —
- — Bigger Cars, Flip-Up Seats, Poetry: How Riders Would Run a Subway —
- — Delta State to give honorary doctorate to poet Trethewey —
- — Poetry’s PR chick —
- — Last night Doris Lessing, aged 88, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In her acceptance speech she recalls her childhood in Africa and laments that children in Zimbabwe are starving for knowledge, while those in more privileged countries shun reading for the ‘inanities’ of the internet —
- — Poet David Poston will receive the 2007 Randall Jarrell/Harperprints Poetry Chapbook Competition Award —
- — Inspired by a TV documentary on mining perils, Philip Larkin wrote a great poem only 25 lines long —