Poetry News:

1. — Poets Marched in the Van of Irish Revolt; Pearse and MacDOnagh, Executed Last Week, Well Known for Their Verse;;-Other Writers Prominent in Sinn Fein Ranks — By Joyce Kilmer —
2. — Interview: Author Kim Addonizio is fearless in verse and prose —
3. — The search continues for Missouri’s first poet laureate —
4. — Eleanor Rees enjoys the engagement with specific, sensual experience in the responses to this month’s workshop —
5. — American leaders have a history of writing, and inspiring, poetry that is mediocre or just plain bad. Ariel Ramchandani encourages poets, and presidents, to do better when the next inauguration comes round … —
6. — View from the lab: Science’s debt to William Blake —
7. — Bombed Baghdad book market turns the page —
8. — Workshop practices poetry as one of the healing arts —
9. — Kipling’s India home to become museum —
10. — Anne Shelby embraces Appalachian language in her daily life, writing and music —
11. — Ondaatje, Domanski win Governor General’s Lit Awards —
12. — The Iron Man who had a heart after all —

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Poetry News:

1. — The mystery of how we read a sentence has been unlocked by scientists —
2. — In recent years literary research has come to focus more and more on visual forms, and digital poetry brings to a head this concern with the visual —
3. — To the Death…May the Best Writer Win —
4. — Poetcast: September 10th, 2007 New work by Kim Addonizio [links to MP3]—
5. — Alison Lurie on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows [contains spoilers] —
6. — Paging David Lynch —
7. — True to its title, Sean O’Brien’s latest collection oozes water —
8. — Nashville: Poet Robin Becker to read at Vanderbilt on Oct. 1 —
9. — I like that phrase - “Lucky Camera” —

Ugh — I had to tell Darryl that Joe Zawinul died. (One of his musical heroes.) Wow, 2007 has been a rough year for musicians — Maynard Ferguson, Michael Brecker, Pavarotti, Max Roach, and Joe Zawinul have died. Here is a video of Joe Zawinul with Cannonball Adderly, way before Weather Report and the Zawinul Syndicate. He’s even playing an acoustic piano

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Poetry News:

1. Banned in Akron —
2. Midpoint by Charles Simic —
3. Reading Wright‘ poetry, it‘ easy to understand the poet‘ sympathy with Stevens —
4. Speculator snaps up poets”™ house —
5. Poet peppers readings with blues harmonica wailings —
6. The Hemingway Effect, From Recent Battlefields —

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