Poetry News:
- — An award-winning poet and physician describes how words help him understand and express human suffering —
- — lovely —
- — WordPlay 5/18/08 Coleman Barks [links to MP3] —
- — In the second of a series of exchanges in which we are bringing poets together to discuss new books, Cate Marvin and Joshua Mehigan spar over books by Alice Oswald and Daniel Anderson —
- — Roethke’s Poetry Rooted in Humble Beginnings and Mayor reads “The Saginaw Song” as his hometown celebrates poet Theodore Roethke’s 100th birthday —
- — Yale also conferred honorary degrees on former US Trade Representative Carla Hills, astronomer Martin Rees, architect Cesar Pelli, poet John Lawrence Ashbery and others —
- — Among the year’s outstanding works for children are poetry books that combine melody and meaning —
Meritage Press (St. Helena & San Francisco) and xPress(ed) (Puhos, Finland) are delighted to announce the release of THE HAY(NA)KU ANTHOLOGY, VOL. II, edited by Mark Young and Jean Vengua.
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