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If you've clicked on a tag, you will see posts from my blog that have featured that tag. At the bottom of the page is a list of all the tags I've ever used on this blog. -- Jilly

Poetry News For June 18, 2008

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 —

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Poetry News For April 21, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. — Trying to organize poets is “kind of like trying to organize minnows or something” [there are MP3s linked in the sidebar on the left] —

  2. — A collection of poems by Dan Albergotti, an assistant professor of English at Coastal Carolina University, has been published, a result of his work being selected for the 2007 A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize —

  3. — This is a poem in the form of a novel, an elegant echo chamber for a canonical work, a reading of an epic poem, and a rewriting of that poem —

  4. — Her debut poetry collection, “Even the Hollow My Body Made is Gone,” has won several awards, the most recent being the 2008 Kate Tufts Discovery Award —

  5. — E. Ethelbert Miller reads and discusses several of his poems with Liane Hansen —

  6. — Emory University Unleashes The Danowski Poetry Collection —

  7. — Taliban: Calling All Playwrights, Singers, Poets —

  8. — Walking With His Muse, a Poet Becomes His Own Destination —

  9. — What are we to make of the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera? —

‘Secret room’ proves to be Jim Crow relic

More search terms, which led people to this blog:

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Poetry News for November 9, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. — More than 60 years after it was written, George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” remains the classic essay on the relationship between words, truth, propaganda and politics —

  2. — ‘Lyrical Terrorist’ found guilty in British court and ‘Lyrical Terrorist led double life’ and ‘Lyrical terrorist’ convicted for jihad poems —

  3. — Here is another photo from St. Petersburg: taken from the bench where KGB agents would sit everyday in the 40’s and 50’s to watch one the land’s great poets, Anna Akhmatova —

  4. — Penguin Wins U.S. Decision in Dorothy Parker Copyright Trial —

  5. — Creativity, innovation and ‘coolness’ often emerge from the grungier areas of a city —

  6. — “poets cannot be coddled and nurtured in universities - that depletes their minds from having relationships with poetry” —

  7. — The artwork of two local artists, sculptor Lisa Scheer and poet E. Ethelbert Miller, was recently installed at the east entrance —

  8. — Nobel laureate to explain connection between arts, sciences —

  9. — The rhythm of the poem is the rhythm of the train; it scans beautifully and is irresistible as a result —

  10. — Gertrude Stein, fearless and flushed —

  11. — Hardy’s poem was printed in the TLS of September 10, 1914 —

  12. — WHY NOT ABOLISH POETS? ANYBODY WRITES POETRY NOW; Bards Are No Longer Picturesque But Look Prosaic and Wear Everyday Clothes and Cut Their Hair and Drink Milk Shakes and ;- Oh, It’s Simply Awful! —

Have you heard of The Soulforce Institute for Nonviolent Change? I haven’t and I’m right here in the city with the Southern Baptist HQ.

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Poetry News for June 11, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. — Poets Speak Out —

  2. — We want to believe the omission was related to space and not because city leaders thought it was too gay —

  3. — In 1923, Alfred A. Knopf published the first book of poems by Wallace Stevens —

  4. — Take 20-minute trip to poet’s birthplace —

  5. — The great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova once said her country silences poets by sending them to a gulag, while America silences poets by ignoring them —

Pals with work up now at storysouth:

J Lynn Laughlin’s story at StorySouth

3 poems by Susan Meyers at storysouth

Also do you guys know about the dead mule? (It was [really] dead for a while but has been back for a long time I guess and I didn’t know that.)

 Cliff nominated me as a thinking blogger. That is kind, thanks. :) Passing it on:

Radish King

Emperor of Ice-Cream Cakes: Poems Are Jokes

Erik’s Choice

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