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Poetry News for September 21, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. — U.S. Airport Screeners Are Watching What You Read —

  2. — She will read one poem and then place a sticker on the person —

  3. — Pulitzer Winner to Take Over as New Yorker‘ Poetry Editor —

  4. — The Terrorist At My Table (Penguin, Rs 200) by Imtiaz Dharker is a collection of poems born in times ruled by terror and instability —

  5. — Can you discuss the significance of the Sharon Olds poem that sparked the narration and your decision to incorporate it into the production? —

  6. — The 5-minute Interview: Benjamin Zephaniah, Poet —

  7. — James Fenton on poets and explosive events —

That’s funny, my brother David just sent me Novels in Three Lines (mentioned in that last link). It does seem “the literary equivalent of Weegee.” Strange little prose poems. It arrived yesterday so I haven’t sunk into all of it yet. I like it though.

David is my eldest brother — 20 years older than me. :D

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Poetry News for August 5, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. — ‘Penelopiad’ Opens on Stage —

  2. — What makes Stevens tough to interpret is his unique diction, which is a mixture of the hymn, the ornate and the bizarre —

  3. — Inductee Sanders turns poetic —

  4. — In the 1960s, Amiri Baraka converted from Greenwich Village Beat poet to Harlem agitator, influencing a generation of young black writers —

  5. — Visiting poets use tools like ‘wormhole haiku’ to inspire young writers —

  6. — Here is an awesome one minute trailer for the Roethke Readings —

  7. — How does one journey from opacity to transparency? —

  8. — what a gifted stand-up artist or actor does with face, body and voice, poetry does with the rhythms of words and the rhythms of thought, in language —

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Yay!: my new niece, Abigail, and some word puzzles. (And physics.)

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