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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 November 17, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. — When the Civil War erupted in April 1861, Walt Whitman, at age 42, was too old to bear arms in the Union Army. It seemed that his best days as a poet were behind him as well. —

  2. — Lesbian Poetry Retrospective Part II —

  3. — Governor Doyle appoints Marilyn Taylor as poet laureate —

  4. — Professor attempts to raise profile of poetry —

  5. — Low-residency MFA programs offer writers the chance to grow from a distance. —

  6. — Early recording of Beat poet Gary Snyder surfaces —

  7. — What Is Art For? —

Just a reminder you can purchase one of my poetry books and help me scratch the surface of my medical bills haha. Or if you are broke you can download freely.

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Poetry News For September 1, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. — Jazz Age poet’s NY home, grounds are being restored —

  2. — But the plight of being an old man in a country that values youth is just one of the many strands of this complex, sentimental yet transcendant poem —

  3. — Missouri’s poet laureate highlights area writers —

  4. — Q&A: Twichell Passes Ausable Torch —

  5. — This week we capture the sensitive, romantic and ultimately tragic talent of early 20th-century poet and prose writer Charlotte Mew —

  6. — College maintenance worker honored for his poetry —

  7. — The unique library of the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum, buried beneath lava by Vesuvius’s eruption in AD79, is slowly revealing its long-held secrets —

  8. — Poets and critics have been around for a long time, and some writers have been both poets and critics, but the “poet-critic” was invented in the 20th century —

  9. — Leontia Flynn emerged fully-formed in 2004 with a first collection, These Days, that placed her at the centre of a new wave of Belfast poets —

  10. — In prosperous America, the poet’s economic reality usually involves working a crap job while scribbling nightly in a cheap apartment —

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Poetry News For August 18, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. — Where’s Weldon? —

  2. — Just what is a university press? Plenty —

  3. — “Everything she did made headlines,” said Bergman, executive director of the Edna St. Vincent Millay Society. “She was a rock star.” —

  4. — Poet’s works discovered in war diary —

  5. — Poet explains his own creative process —

  6. — In his ninth book of poetry, Nurkse sees the nuances in the smallest moments —

Nashville Is Reads Pictures


You Are Archery


You are a bit of a traditionalist. You like old fashioned things with deep traditions.
You also like to see the result of your accomplishments right in front of you.
If practice makes perfect, that’s fine by you. You like to practice a skill.
What Olympic Sport Are You?

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Poetry News For June 7, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. — Local bookstore brings poetry to the shelves —

  2. — Poet Zagajewski receives the 2008 Milosz Prize —

  3. — The LGBT Literati —

  4. — A 2008 Independent Publisher Book Award gold medal has been awarded to Ninebark Press for its inaugural publication, “Deep Travel: Contemporary American Poets Abroad.” —

  5. — W H Auden struggles for the conch —

  6. — Classics - Old English Poems and Riddles and The First Poems in English —

  7. — Show to honor Edna St. Vincent Millay —

  8. — IT failure haiku poems —

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Poetry News For February 5, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. — He was, said his friend William Burroughs, an “inner space explorer”, but the Frenchman remained a solitary figure, outside any artistic grouping, almost the only exponent of his art, and almost certainly the only poet to record sounds and movements by swallowing a microphone —

  2. — Our poet is in a far colder place than we are —

  3. — Featured Book Review: Savage Beauty by Nancy Milford —

  4. — the only time I’m a poet is when I am drafting and revising a poem, only in those moments —

  5. — Indiana looks for successor poet to fill government post —

  6. — Blogging the AWP, Round Two —

  7. — Stanzas of Sin With a 21st-Century Spin —

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Poetry News For January 30, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. — awwww … congrats —

  2. — Clark has become one of poetry’s most prolific and influential book designers —

  3. — Poetic licence required… —

  4. — Stanford celebrates Emily Dickinson’s legacy with three free events —

  5. — its advice on fashion, bodies and morals gives rise, in Compton’s hands, to quirky but politically pointed verse —

  6. — What’s in an author’s name? —

  7. — Groundbreaking Books: Collected Sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1941) —

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Poetry News For December 10, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. — Last week two U. S. lady poets, whom repute places high above the ruck of feminine poetasters, smote their lyres in unison —

  2. — A doctor and poet in Boston, Campo writes eloquently about his divided loyalties in “How I Learned English: 55 Accomplished Latinos Recall Lessons in Language and Life” —

  3. — The attraction of opposites —

  4. — Drinking games don’t often involve meter and verse, unless you were composing poetry back in ancient China —

  5. — Social Network for Authors Red Room Gets $1.25 Million —

  6. — Chapbooks and zines get the personal touch —

  7. — Taslima had expected to win her return ticket to Calcutta after expressing regret and deleting the offending portions from her book —

  8. — What are You Recommending, Daisy Fried? —

  9. — To take a random-sample handful of its subjects, there’s Freud, Duke Ellington, Beatrix Potter, Tony Curtis, Anna Akhmatova, and GK Chesteron —

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Poetry News for August 20, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. — A parting of the ways in poetry —

  2. — On March 2, 1952, Guest was named Michigan’s first poet laureate —

  3. — Waldman is pleased that Walter Salles will direct the movie version —

  4. — Millay was a national celebrity, and her readings would outdraw Robert Frost‘ —

  5. — The Wounded Angel, 1903, by Amanda Auchter (congrats Amanda) —

  6. — Poem of the Week: A Pact with Sudden Death, by John Ashbery —

  7. — He told us that good poetry was “stored magic” —

  8. — The reactions of contemporary poets to Russia’s new railroad were uniformly ecstatic —

  9. — A proposed tourism trail that would guide tourists to homes of [Southern] writers across three states —

  10. — “I feel like a cat in a rat storm” —

  11. — New Poet Laureate Faces Plagiarism Charges [satire] —

Brain cells work differently than previously thought

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