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Poetry News For July 14, 2008

Poetry News:

— Who Owns That Prayer? —

— Anthology traces lines of contemporary poets from across the sea —

— Can science explain why ABBA is so catchy? —

— A tribute to Jonathan Williams planned —

— U.S. isn’t immune from poet’s observations on injustice —

— Inspired by Jazz, a Poet Does ‘His Own Thing’ —

— Michigan poetry —

— her difficulty — her intransigent demand that we pay total concentration to every word — is exciting —

— Wordsworth Daffodils estate on the market for £3m —

You Bastard: A Narrative Exploration of the Experience of Indignation Within Organisations

Libertarians: A (Not So) Lunatic Fringe

Looks like Mary Oliver and “anybody but Jorie Graham” are neck-and-neck for first place in the Who is going to be the next United States Poet Laureate? poll. I’ll leave it open until the new POLUS POetLaureateoftheUS is announced. Maxine Kumin got some votes but I’m not sure if she would want to do it again?

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Tags: creative writing, Gabriela Jauregui, Jonathan Williams, Karen Houle, michigan, poet, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Steve Dalachinsky, William Wordsworth

Poetry News For June 15, 2008

Poetry News:

— Memoirist, poet and Book World contributor Mary Karr will be online Tuesday, June 17 at 3 p.m. ET to discuss her Poet’s Choice column, her best-selling 1995 memoir The Liars’ Club, and the joys, seductions and struggles of the writing life —

— On the Self Publishing Argument —

— where human thoughts seem to emanate from organic forms, and all is rendered in a poetry of jungle-like density where the chief pleasure is the texture of the language itself —

— He believed he had an excellent voice and would sing his own poems to helpless audiences who clapped in terror —

— ‘I embraced surrealism … and psychoanalysis, which closely abutted surrealism. Together, they represented what I wanted to do’. —

— Peter O’Leary digs deep into the Poetry magazine archive to uncover the origins of the Objectivist movement —

— Maybe vets of that great generation created a distance inside them that distanced their kids, a sadness that’s made for some great poems —

— A row has broken out in Portugal’s literary world over plans by heirs of the nation’s most famous modern poet —

— Call for donations —

Happy Father’s Day.

PHOTO IN THE NEWS: Rare Sea Dragon Father “Pregnant”. He looks Seussian.

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Tags: Allesandro Porco, diy publishing, Edward Hirsch, Fernando Pessoa, J G Ballard, Jordan Scott, Karen Houle, Mary Karr, Michael Milburn, poet, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, R M Vaughan

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