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Poetry News For June 4, 2008 — 2/2

Poetry News:

— Vandals Forced to Study Poetry of Frost & CNN, WSJ —

— Jason’s poem “One Day I Will Die” enjoins us to hug each instant hard enough to forge a diamond from the coal —

— So why does poetry matter? —

— Remembering Joseph Brodsky —

— Poetry boxing helps Japanese get ready to grumble —

— He believed that bad writing destroyed civilizations and that good writing could save them, and although he was an élitist about what counted as art and who mattered as an artist, he thought that literature could enhance the appreciation of life for everyone —

— Czechoslovakia is the setting for Poem of the End, which re-lives the last phases of Marina Tsvetaeva’s most intense love affair —

— What happens to creativity and imagination as we get older? —

— Dearborn Suite by Philip Levine Another Michigan poem —

— Detroit, 1972, by Jim Daniels And another Michigan poem —

— Making a Lyrical Return to the Sunken Garden —

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Tags: Ezra Pound, Jason Shinder, Jay Parini, Jim Daniels, Joseph Brodsky, Lynda Barry, Marina Tsvetaeva, Philip Levine, poet, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Robert Frost

Poetry News For December 2, 2007

Poetry News:

— Spent 22 Years Collecting 15,000 Similes; Frank J. Wilstach’s Ardent and Relentless Hunt for This Elusive Figure of Speech Results in a Remarkable Collection - By Joyce Kilmer [book is at Google books] —

— The Totality of Causes: Li-Young Lee and Tina Chang in Conversation —

— “Jennifer L. Knox is pure magic.” —

— West Point Professor Seeks Paths to a ‘Soldier’s Heart’ [links to MP3] and more here at Ron Slate’s blog —

— Poet Confidential: I WAS A GREETING CARD WRITER —

— A new collection from America’s most playful poet —

— It is one of the more delicious workings of karma that Singapore, which criminalizes homosexuality, should have as its leading young poet an openly gay man —

— Interview with wordsmith Gary Snyder —

— But The Stray Dog Cabaret is as compelling for the poems included as for its back story, which tells us a great deal about Russian society and literature in the period preceding the revolution —

— A.Van Jordan writes books of poetry that approach a subject the way a filmmaker or nonfiction writer might —

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Tags: A Van Jordan, Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, books, Boris Pasternak, Cyril Wong, Frank J Wilstach, Gary Snyder, Jennifer L Knox, John Ashbery, Li Young Lee, literature, Marina Tsvetaeva, Osip Mandelstam, poet, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Sergei Esenin, similies, Tina Chang, Velimir Khlebnikov, Vladimir Mayakovsky

Poetry News for August 2, 2007

Poetry News:

— Poets of the magnitude and agility of Tsvetaeva and Pasternak are, in all senses, hard to follow —

— Instead of love ballads sung by scantily clad singers, the contestants offered the rhyme and rhythm of a flowery style of Bedouin poetry known as Nabati —

— Local writer wins poetry prize —

— Rowling said in an online chat the Hallows were in part inspired by The Pardoner’s Tale, one of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales [spoilers in this article!] —

— Sussex hotel linked to poet Shelley is sold —

— for the first time since 1912, you too [americans] can legally partake of absinthe —

— Try your hand at his workshop on dramatic poetry —

“Who are the great deep dreamers of our culture now?“

If you run a lit mag, Luna Park would like to speak with you.

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Tags: absinthe, Boris Pasternak, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ingmar Bergman, jt marshall, Marina Tsvetaeva, Matthew Sweeney, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Zilka Joseph

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