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Kay Ryan

Poetry News:

1. — Higginson has been ridiculed as a second-rater who allowed too much editorial tampering when he first published Dickinson’s poems, —
2. — Sylvia Plath—original hip-hop poet —
3. — This stunning Northern Irish poet is easily on a par with famous Seamus —
4. — Sex and the semicolon —
5. — A book of poems featured prominently in AMC’s widely lauded “Mad Men” sent viewers scrambling to find copies —
6. — I have a plea for any internet animation specialists out there: more poetry, please —
7. — UGA grad Trethewey named Georgia Woman of the Year —
8. — The verse novel (like the rock opera or the sound sculpture) is the awkward child of successful parents, destined to disappoint both of them —
9. — LOL —

Poetry News:

1. — Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dead at 67 —
2. — Assessing Kay Ryan, our new poet laureate —
3. — McSweeney’s Rejects Mike Mussina’s Seventh Consecutive Submission —
4. — Like Ginsberg - like Pablo Neruda, like Walt Whitman - Herrera found such forms in long lists, long lines, long poems made out of short parts —
5. — The Voices and Visions videos are available online via learner.org! Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, Wallace Stevens, etc —
6. — It’s that same sense of dignity that Hayden brought to this next poem, which praises a different kind of sacrifice for another ancestor of his: the freed slave Frederick Douglass —
7. — Portrait of Calliope (detail), muse of poetry, found at Pompeii guest house —

Poetry News:

1. — The actress has been lambasted as old and out of touch for her controversial views on modern verse —
2. — A slap to poetry in Indiana? ow —
3. — Hoftsra researchers dig into times of slave poet —
4. — Poet Kay Ryan On Words, Writing —
5. — This week’s poem is by the greatest poet of all time —
6. — The poet turned war criminal enjoyed the protection of loyal Bosnian Serbs during his years on the run —
7. — Poetry about absence reflects mature growth —

“What happened Tuesday night was definitely a rare occurrence and one we should not expect to see again in our lifetimes”

Poetry News:

1. — Actress backs medieval Norwich mystic appeal —
2. — out their business as usual, rarely consulting their Shakespeare, William Wordsworth or Robert Frost. One has to wonder if poetry has any place in the 21st century —
3. — What, exactly, is an artist book? —
4. — Music and poetry have been kissing cousins since each began —
5. — Medvedev, Putin congratulate poet Yevtushenko on jubilee —
6. — In “Hardheaded Weather,” poet Cornelius Eady vividly explores issues of racial division in American life —
7. — More Kay Ryan: What I love even more than the simple cliché is maybe the malapropism—the happy confusion of TWO cliches and Fairfax poet’s original voice draws notice and highest honors and Spike in sales for next poet laureate —
8. — LOL —

The Frank Stanford Literary Festival
October 17 - 19, 2008
Fayetteville, Arkansas
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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 —

Poetry News:

1. — Forgotten treasure from Brazil —
2. — Eyes, and whether or not to trust them, are central to Ode to Psyche by John Keats —
3. — Slain man identified as UC Riverside professor —
4. — Poetry Foundation clarifies the policy on their blog comments —
5. — The Poet’s Poet —
6. — A 21st-century warning from a 13th-century poet —
7. — Web Extra: Selected Poems by Kay Ryan —
8. — Radio 4 poet criticises BBC soaps and aggressive interviewers —

Brace yourselves

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Who voted for Kay Ryan in the poll last week? Raise your hands. Who was the “suggester”? Yay Kay! I think that’s great.

“Kay Ryan, Poet Laureate” anagrams to:

Ya! A natural! Eke poetry.
A yank poetry laureate.
An okay letter aura — yep!

Kay Ryan, Outsider With Sly Style, Named Poet Laureate

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