Poetry News:

1. — These are poems of stark strength and startling honesty, constantly revealing the shock of the reality of everyday existence, touched often by a quiet dry humor —
2. — With invention, irony, and uncanny instinct, three poets show off their mastery of the surreal —
3. — T.S. ELIOT v. PORTISHEAD —
4. — Stray Questions for: Mary Jo Salter —
5. — Sounds of final partings fill Schultz’s verse —
6. — Ernest Cipolone, 87, of Brooklawn, who has been writing poetry for 60 years, read his verses before an audience for the first time —
7. — If anyone these days is hanging onto a notion of consistent stylistic evolution as aesthetic merit, this volume will do its best to disorient them —
8. — Sylvia Plath Trivia - Answers! —
9. — Poetry roundup —

“Third Genders” in Societies with Rigid Gender Roles

The Guardian recently asked its arts critics to cover sports for a day — and vice versa. The results are quite winning!

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Poetry News:

1. — Knox is at her best in poems that demonstrate an understanding of poetry —
2. — More on the Frost “poetry punishment at the Poetry Foundation’s blog, Harriet —
3. — John Ashbery’s Notes From the Air: Selected Later Poems and Robin Blaser’s The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser are the International and Canadian winners of the eighth annual Griffin Poetry Prize —
4. — Is there an American poet more unique and incapable of characterization than James Tate? —
5. — Putting Your Poetry in Order —
6. — An extraordinary poet examines ordinary subjects —
7. — In the introduction to ‘The Best American Erotic Poems from 1800 to the Present’ (Scribner, $30), the poet and critic David Lehman points to what he sees as a “vital American tradition of erotic poetry” —
8. — Hollins University will receive a $5 million gift to establish what will be known as the Jackson Center for Creative Writing —
9. — Exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen finds refuge in Sweden —
10. — An athlete in the extreme sport of poetry —

Poetry News:

1. — If you didn’t browse the comments when I posted about M.F.A. programs last month, you really should: they veered quickly and entertainingly toward gang warfare, with the Crips arguing against such programs and the Bloods arguing for them —
2. — Mary Oliver’s ‘work is loving the world’ —
3. — Strip —
4. — A sheaf of post-April poetry and poets —
5. — If poets were cowboys, James Tate would be The Man with No Name. It would be the spaghettiest western ever; his shadow would fall across the saloon door and everything inside would go quiet. —
6. — The future of poetry magazines —

Poetry News:

1. — It’s also an opportunity to have the kind of immediate relationship with an audience that is all too often unavailable to poets, no matter how well-known they are —
2. — Book Review The Ghost Soldiers (2008) James Tate —
3. — Jonathan Williams: 1929-2008 By Jeffery Beam • Special to The Smoky Mountain News —
4. — you can post information about the work of female poets you enjoy —
5. — This is a profession that is losing its will to live —
6. — Random House has linked up with an online initiative to allow reader reviewing of rejected manuscripts - but is it as worthwhile as it sounds? —
7. — There are certain single volumes of American poetry, some of them first books or early books, which carry with them a special and spiritual power; they seem to arise from a mysterious impulse and to have been written from an enormous private or artistic need —

Poetry News:

1. — NZ’s ‘best-loved’ poet dies [and more at your tributes] —
2. — It’s a great time to be a poetry reader —
3. — Police make arrests in Robert Frost house damage —
4. — Poets Forum Reading: Free Audio Download —
5. — Rough and tumble aren’t the only words that drive Metro Detroit’s literati. —
6. — Under the influence of the Romantic poets, he turned away from a life based on calculation —