• — Should blog comments be moderated to reduce the number of inevitable “angry, scatological discussion threads?” —
• — Conversation: Poet Carl Phillips from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS [mp3] —
• — Author Makes Famous Poems Fun For Kids —
• — Paul Guest’s Body of Poetry — The Story from American Public Media —
• — For Your Health, Pick A Mate Who Is Conscientious And, Perhaps, Also Neurotic —
• — Today is the annual Dining Out For Life, and dozens of local eateries are donating anywhere from 30-100% of the day’s sales to Nashville Cares, a locally-based AIDS service organization. —
• — Ursula K Le Guin wins sixth Nebula award —
• — Margaret Walker might be the “most famous person nobody knows” but the poet, whose works about African-Americans bridged the gap between the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and ’30s and the black arts movement of the 1960s, will take center stage May 3 at the University of Kansas in a unique musical collaboration not to be missed. —
• — Falling In Love With Ideas from David Lynch Foundation Television —
• — My book, finalist yet again, has been selected for publication by Dream Horse Press. —
• — This week, Michael Tyrell, co-editor of “Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn” (NYU Press, 2007), will be answering readers’ questions about the history of Brooklyn’s literary landscape, its place in American poetry and the poets who live and work in the borough. —
• — LETTERS: Laureate of the Louche —
• — Afghan poets tackle scars of war —
• — An Essential American Poet from alt.NPR: Poetry Off the Shelf Podcast Fanny Howe talks to us about the range of Jean Valentine’s poems. [mp3] —
• — Poem of the week: The Mangel-Bury by Ivor Gurney —
• — Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Awarded —
• — Francisco Goya from Pallimed: Arts & Humanities —
• — Are there any ways a smaller publisher can subvert the larger book publishers? To work the currents as a raft in an ocean of big, hulking vessels? —
• — West Tisbury Poet Wins Lilly Prize —
• — In that 10% are poems about a deathmatch between friends, fantasy role-playing games and the people who love them, and closing time at a bar. Schroeder’s been praised by River Styx’s Richard Newman for his distinctive voice, in which he spins lines such as “Nature is a MILF.” —
• — This year’s Buffalo Small Press Book Fair, which took place last month, was more evidence, if one needed any, that Buffalo remains a hotbed of small press activity. —
• — Georgia Review ‘throws great parties’ —
• — That there might be a Ponzi element in all this is something Mr. McGurl never considers. He thinks that writing programs are the best thing that ever happened to American fiction…. —
• — Art mags decry double standard —
• — Miss the Tweet? Here are the Minnesota Book Awards winners —
• — The Poetics of Hip-Hop | New Hampshire Public Radio | Word of Mouth —
• — Jim Powell: Irascible poet with stolen license —
• — ‘Casey at the Bat’ author had local roots —
• — What poem are you going to carry in your pocket on April 30 [Poem in Your Pocket Day]? —
• — Boston honors Poe, a native son who shunned the city —
• — Deborah Digges, distinguished poet and memoirist, dies at 59 —
• — But there is one tombstone at which many women stop and genuflect. It is that of a 25-year-old woman called Nadia Anjuman, and the flowery Persian engraving describes her as a poet who risked her life to keep writing under the Taliban. —
• — In an essay on the poet Muriel Rukeyser, Rich says that Rukeyser “was one of the great integrators, seeing the fragmentary world of modernity not as irretrievably broken, but in need of societal and emotional repair.” —
• — The letters page from London Review of Books Volume 31 issue 8 —
• — Hobble Creek Review …is fresh. —
• — Poet’s Choice: Susan Wheeler —
• — Poet’s Choice by David Hinton: ‘Drinking Wine’ by T’ao Ch’ien —
• — Woeser, one of China’s best-known bloggers chronicling life in Tibet, has become an accidental hero to a generation of disenfranchised young Tibetans. —
• — The poet-critic William Logan continues his assault on the state of American poetry in these essays. —
• — Marshall is the author of “Meaning a Cloud” (Oberlin College Press, 2008), winner of the 2007 Field poetry prize. With his wife, the poet Christine Deavel, Marshall owns and operates Seattle’s poetry–only bookstore, Open Books, in Wallingford. [mp3] —
• — New collections by Stephen Dunn, J. D. McClatchy, Sharon Olds and Charles Wright. —
• — … Poetry Through the Ages. —
• — Why the Telegraph is wrong on women in IT —
• — Betting closed on next poet laureate amid speculation that Carol Ann Duffy has been chosen —

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