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Poetry News:

1. — Articles in Sep/Oct 2008 issue of American Poetry Review, The —
2. — Eminem reveals life behind the fame in ‘The Way I Am’ —
3. — A newly discovered and previously unknown piece of wartime propaganda by Dylan Thomas is to premier at an annual festival to the poet. —
4. — A judge was wrong to reject expert literary analysis of the poem “Parked Cars and Potholes in the City of Mississauga,” an appeal court heard yesterday —
5. — Making poetry a vital part of life —
6. — Having worked in numerous positions in the small press world, I continue to be annoyed by the oddly prevalent idea that putting out more books — including those of low quality which you think will sell — somehow guarantees success —
7. — Barack Obama carries the book of poems in his right arm as he and his wife Michelle leave their daughters’ school —
8. — The Beat Generation, Before It Was Cool —
9. — On the one hand, there are those poets who excel in revealing everything, yawping and ranting their way to rhapsody…. —

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Poetry News:

1. — Don’t know your French flaps from your headbands? Here’s a guide to the arcane terminology of the book world —
2. — This week, a passionate cry for justice from Elizabeth Barrett Browning —
3. — The true feelings of Dylan Thomas’s widow after his early death have been disclosed in a private journal which is being put up for sale —
4. — Cunningham may be the only person in American publishing who can say, “Poetry is 60% of what we carry.” —
5. — This week: Ken Rumble on Wordplay [mp3] —
6. — A BOOKSHOP has fallen heir to the precious work of a poet - but they can’t trace the owner. —

Poetry News:

1. — A 24-year-old who called herself the “Lyrical Terrorist” won her appeal in London in Tuesday against conviction for collecting information which could help plan a terror attack —
2. — Why everyone wants to make a Dylan Thomas movie —
3. — For more than 30 years, poet and professor Richard Shelton has traveled to a high security prison in Arizona to run a program that encourages prisoners to write and read poetry —
4. — Transcript, Book World: Poet’s Choice — Poetry, Writing and ‘The Liars’ Club’ — Mary Karr —
5. — “I would like to explore the statistical chances of getting such a line …” —
6. — Young American Indians Find Their Voice in Poetry —
7. — In celebration of Father’s Day, Host Liane Hansen speaks with poet E. Ethelbert Miller —
8. — Reviews Needed for Experimental Fiction Poetry Blog —
9. — Coffee’s Aroma Kick-starts Genes In The Brain —

Poetry News:

1. — Comparing the Processing of Music and Language Meaning Using EEG and fMRI Provides Evidence for Similar and Distinct Neural Representations —
2. — Poetry can be true without being True —
3. — Lamantia anticipated by decades the elegant involutions and torqued interiority made familiar to us by other poets influenced by Surrealism such as Paul Celan and John Ashbery —
4. — “I must have been a fierce particle,” she marveled in a 2003 conversation with Spires. —
5. — Of verse and violent crime —
6. — A Yale-educated WASP, Matthews mocked the tight-lipped stoicism that was his birthright, while elevating it into high style. —
7. — “It’s for everybody,” she said. “It’s music. If you love music, you love poetry. It’s for everyone.” —
8. — Just when Almereyda has inclined us to the notion that agitprop can be noble, sincere and effective, Night Wraps The Sky accounts for the simultaneous unraveling of Mayakovsky’s life and Lenin’s communism. —
9. — a list of print journals that accept email submissions —
10. — As a new biopic probes the life and loves of Dylan Thomas, the writer’s daughter gives her verdict to biographer Andrew Lycett —

America has always struggled to live up to ideals expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the freedoms written by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution. Nowhere has this idea played out more visibly than on the baseball field where men and women have fought to cross racial, cultural, and gender barriers for the equal opportunity to play the game. In conjunction with our spring 2008 exhibit, Baseball as America, the National Constitution Center presents “Baseball: The Melting Pot,” a special conversation about the ways in which the game of baseball has served as a reflection of our social tensions as well as ideals, and our struggle to become a more inclusive society: MP3.

Poetry News:

1. — The prose poem in California —
2. — In which I answer questions like: “How do you see lady death?” —
3. — Trying to get to the core of Dylan Thomas’ Big Apple – and see through the booze —
4. — What counts as a “personal rejection”? —
5. — “The Warrior” by Frances Richey is composed of 28 poems written by the poet to her son, Ben, a Green Beret who has served two tours of duty in Iraq. Jeffrey Brown speaks with Richey and her son about the collection and their unique perspectives on the war. [MP3] —
6. — Most of Thomas Hardy’s poems were written after his celebrated novels. But in poetry, his first love, his talent shines just as strongly —
7. — Trust your reader. Leave space for his or her imagination and knowledge. —

Poetry News:

1. — The lit mags that could —
2. — GK intros Maxine Kumin, she and GK read her poetry [real audio] —
3. — There are stereotypes about Sylvia Plath fangirls — that we’re mired in middle-class existential woe —
4. — In his new collection, Hardheaded Weather: New and Selected Poems, poet Cornelius Eady writes of his transition from urban renter to rural homeowner and the encroachment of middle age —
5. — Blues And Haikus: Jack Kerouac with Al Cohn and Zoot Sims —
6. — Melissa Denes talks to Aeronwy Thomas about her father Dylan Thomas —
7. — Pulitzer Prize Winner Hass Answered Your Questions on Modern Poetry —

Meet my neighbors. I heard about that on XM Radio during the top of the hour news blurb & the news announcer just said it was in Tennessee. So I was thinking it was some crazy East Tennessee person (disclaimer: mom & them are from E TN LOL). Sadly, no.

Poetry News:

1. — The sonnet is a frequently misunderstood form with an enduring appeal. Fancy having a crack at your own ‘little song’? —
2. — it also cements her reputation as the greatest poet of her generation —
3. — This sense of freedom is produced by Ashbery’s diction (no American poet has had a larger, more diverse vocabulary, not Whitman, not Pound) as well as his formal choices. —
4. — Sometimes the hothouse of a partnership fosters frustration and magnifies our tiniest faults —
5. — Dylan Thomas revival proves death has no dominion —
6. — Crozier realised that with a sensibility as English as his own, he couldn’t create a postscript to Black Mountain, so he left America and came home —
7. — Wash. adviser fired for helping underground paper regains job —

Poetry News:

1. — We cannot be caged by the moment of dying; in dying we are, in effect, set free, even if oblivious —
2. — Clarke named Wales national poet —
3. — Amazon Does Damage Control On Its Print-On-Demand Demands
4. — Elementary students mix poetry, basketball —
5. — UGA’s Judith Ortiz-Cofer: A Poet Of Many Places —
6. — The Boston-born poet and one-time protegé of Andy Warhol, Rene Ricard, 65, has released four volumes of poetry and held numerous exhibitions —

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April 23rd-26th, 2008
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Poetry News:

1. — Poetry Chronicle —
2. — Poems on the frontiers; a lobster lesson on the sea
3. — Jenny Holzer Makes Light of Poems and Beats Swords Into Paintings —
4. — Pakistani’s Poem Offers Hope in Despairing Time —
5. — In ‘Telephone Ringing,’ Adrienne Rich makes music of words —
6. — Here is Arizona poet Steve Orlen’s lovely tribute to the great opera singer, Maria Callas —
7. — Ferlinghetti argues that poetry can save the world —
8. — Creative Work Has Health Advantages, Population Research Center Study Shows —
9. — Dylan Thomas’s passport can now be viewed online thanks to the National Library of Wales [more] —
10. — An “honest guildsman” of a poet melds the political and the personal —
11. — Possibly the most moving use of a poet’s own name in English poetry is Ben Jonson’s “On My First Son —

Poetry News:

1. — The Husband Tries to Write to the Disappearing Wife by Jeannine Hall Gailey [congrats Jeannine] —
2. — ” … he cut through all the rubbish and I think that should be admired” —
3. — Art work marks end of poet’s walk —
4. — Momaday named state’s centennial poet laureate —
5. — I’d be out playing and I would hear a poem way off —
6. — They’ve convinced Congress to hold hearings on the matter [Yay! and you can keep an eye out here: there is an RSS feed] —
7. — First interview with JK Rowling —
8. — “Damn My Captain . . . I’m almost sorry I ever wrote the poem . . .” —

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