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Edwin Arlington Robinson

Poetry News:

1. — Their elders will not be quick to applaud either their language or their sentiments: both grate harshly on a pre-War ear —
2. — Poetry workshop: This month Peter Bennet invites you to enter the moonlit world of Walter de la Mare —
3. — The poisoned wedding dress —
4. — Military junta bans 19 writers and performers; poet questioned by authorities —
5. — The Russian poet Marina Tsvetayeva endured and indulged in a life of high drama —
6. — Forty years after her death, Iran’s most rebellious poet is back in English-language translation —

Poetry News:

1. — Edwin Arlington Robinson Defines Poetry; A Language, Says Well-Known Poet, That Tells Us Through More or Less Emotional Reaction Something Which Cannot Be Said —
2. — The millennia-long story of the wilful or careless destruction of books—this account takes in both possibilities—begins centuries before the birth of Christ —
3. — Len Roberts: A memorial reading for a beloved Valley poet —
4. — We believe that the next generation of exciting writers and poets will be found among the smaller publishers and self-published authors —
5. — Terror trial poet ‘like Wilfred Owen’ —
6. — Joni Mitchell: still smoking —
7. — SF State’s new digital file and sharing Web site, Data and Instruction Virtual Archive (DIVA), where students will be able to listen to archived speeches and video recordings from poets online —
8. — The words go round and round and they come out here —
9. — finalists for the Cambridge Poet Populist position —

HR 1955, crazy but true.

1. The literary wife: Working with the widow

2. MacSween: Canada‘ “˜great unknown poet”™

3. Topicalizer and other tools for writers.

4. Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Poet’s Life.

Poetry News:

1. Radish King marks the first book of poems I’ve read that has made me want to call in for penicillin —
2. Robinson used traditional forms of poetry but focused much of his attention on nontraditional literary topics, often writing about otherwise ordinary, working-class people and events —
3. This year, NPR.org renews its partnership with the Academy of American Poets to bring you an April of verse —
4. Frederick Seidel, Don McKay among those on Griffin Poetry Prize short lists —
5. Poet’s kind of town, Pittsburgh is … —
6. When I tell people my thesis topic, Medievalism in Australian Poetry, I often encounter blank stares —

Poetry News:

1. He devised a tone, a feeling of wry, informed and doom-ridden attentiveness —
2. Letters: Hart Crane —
3. The pressures of confinement in Guantanamo Bay have led many in the controversial detention camp to turn to poetry —
4. We want more people to know who she was and what she achieved —
5. Robinson’s reputation did not merely diminish ” it nearly disappeared —
6. Yale Gives $100,000 to Bidart for ‘Shocking’ Poems —

Poetry News:

1. Copper Nickel: a literary showcase —
2. Distributor’s folding hurts indie mags —
3. A new Aeneid for the 21st century —
4. there is a fine line between poetry art and porn —
5. But if the form was familiar, the language and subject matter marked a revolution in American poetry —
6. How to Read a Poem: Part Three —

An Atlanta Poetry Alert

Ticker by Michael Quattrone

I had planned to go to AWP this year but 1.) I got a pretty big bill for my surgery 2.) My mom isn’t doing well right now. Maybe someday.

Akhmatova:

Poetry News:

1. Google mashes up books and maps —
2. “I hate publishing!” Alfred Tennyson complained —
3. Edward Thomas on the Lagans Road by Seamus Heaney —
4. The Man With Two Brains —
5. A New Book Promises an Intriguing Twist to the Epic Tale of ‘Doctor Zhivago’ —
6. Remembering Brainard —

Edwin Arlington Robinson article at the Wall Street Journal, if someone has access. I’d like to know what it says if anyone out there can view it. I’m a fan.