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Poetry News for July 24, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. I used to tell my senior staff to get me poets as managers
  2. Fiona Sampson admires the responses to her exercise on listening poems
  3. Fitzpatrick painstakingly filled the three-car driveway with T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
  4. Two skulls, one poet
  5. Penguin in battle over Parker poems
  6. Massachusetts is even more spectacular with offbeat author Henry Thoreau as a guide
  7. 100 unpublished poems along with photographs and other belongings of Nobel prize-winning Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral have been found
  8. William Carlos Williams wrote to Mary Ellen Solt on April 25, 1960, concerning her poem “With Child”
  9. The Speed of Dark

Today is the Feast Day for St. Christina the Astonishing (of Brustheim). And Amelia Earhart’s birthday.

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Poetry News for July 15, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. For this trio, vive la différence!
  2. Yeats’s inspirations ranged from folklore to fascism
  3. Minnesota to get state poet laureate
  4. The fringe presses with a small margin for success
  5. One pleasure of art comes from how accurately it can convey ambivalence
  6. Baseball’s troubadour poet laureate
  7. Les Murray’s world subtly radiates holiness in whimsical poems
  8. Fiona Sampson’s exactitude and command of inner space in Common Prayer impress Adam Thorpe

Deep down, I can’t help but think if we gave the kids in the Middle East 1,000s of electric guitars and amps and drumkits and rock and roll records, everything would turn out O.K.

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Emily Dickinson:

Bees are Black, with Gilt Surcingles
Buccaneers of Buzz.
Ride abroad in ostentation
and subsist on Fuzz.

Fuzz ordained — not Fuzz contingent —
Marrows of the Hill.
Jugs — a Universe’s fracture
Could not jar or spill.

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