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Poetry News For September 3, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. — Time to rediscover the glory of chapbooks —

  2. — The notebooks of W.S. Merwin, one of the most eminent poets in the world, are anything but beautiful —

  3. — Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, who returned to India from Sweden early in August, on Monday, said she has no plans of leaving the country —

  4. — Fall Preview: Poet John Ashbery Makes His Elliptical Way into Library of America —

  5. — Former US poet laureate receives $100,000 prize —

  6. — “Isn’t it amazing,” he said, ” to have 1,000 people show up and waiting in line to hear a poet?” —

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Poetry News For March 30, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. — Scantily Clad e-chaps —

  2. — When James Woolley, Smith Professor of English, discovered a lost manuscript of the 18th century Irish satirist Jonathan Swift, he was met with a jaw-dropping surprise: the poet’s first unpublished poem in centuries —

  3. — “I do not think that more information always makes a richer poem. I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion. . . .” —

  4. — The Boston Public Library is seeking to fill the Curator of Manuscripts position in its Rare Books and Manuscripts Department —

  5. — Job: Curator of Poetry in the George Edward Woodberry Poetry Room Harvard —

  6. — Robert Fagles, Translator of the Classics, Dies at 74 —

  7. — It’s time her genius was more widely recognised —

  8. — The poet doubts the redemptive power of her own gift while simultaneously using it to find a tone that — in the final line — wavers perfectly between her contempt for consolation and her desire for it —

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