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Poetry News For July 21, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. Why do his poems so often feature husbands who kill or resent their wives?
  2. On The Gurlesque Part 3
  3. Poet keeps win close to chest
  4. USC Pigskin Poets Get Kids Reading
  5. Time, reconfigured by poetry, allows connection
  6. Library of Congress Organizes Eighth Annual National Book Festival Hosted by Mrs. Laura Bush on the National Mall; Famed Authors To Participate
  7. Southeast publishes 1921 poem by William Carlos Williams
  8. Poet Hart Crane was born on this day in 1899
  9. Exactly why we take personal poems so, well, personally remains a mystery and a muddle.
  10. Yeats Meets the Digital Age, Full of Passionate Intensity
  11. a poem whose logic is a mockery of logic
  12. Quantum poetics

‘Frequency Hopping’ Showcases Screen Siren’s Smarts

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So do you think this poem is racist, as has been interpreted here? I can think of a few poems with the P word — Plath, Bukowski … Macbeth. Philip Levine I bet.

I am sooo getting sick of political-correctness groupthink. Die Gedanken sind frei.

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Poetry News For July 18, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. A 54-year-old former schoolteacher has won the poetry category of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards
  2. Using a pack of tarot cards as an early writing exercise, Kay Ryan says, forced her “to start dealing with these abstractions like love, death, the wheel of fortune.” and “I’ve always been able to count on the world to humiliate me. Now I’ve been elevated to a post where I can humiliate myself.” and A Small Taste of Kay Ryan
  3. Thirtysomething love poetry
  4. We should appreciate execrable poetry with an axe to grind - it teaches us a lot about the good stuff
  5. Bob Dylan does not deserve this snobbery and pedantry
  6. It’s not every day that a new magazine is launched in Philadelphia, and even rarer still does a literary journal make its debut
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