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Poetry News For June 18, 2008

Poetry News:

— A 24-year-old who called herself the “Lyrical Terrorist” won her appeal in London in Tuesday against conviction for collecting information which could help plan a terror attack —

— Why everyone wants to make a Dylan Thomas movie —

— For more than 30 years, poet and professor Richard Shelton has traveled to a high security prison in Arizona to run a program that encourages prisoners to write and read poetry —

— Transcript, Book World: Poet’s Choice — Poetry, Writing and ‘The Liars’ Club’ — Mary Karr —

— “I would like to explore the statistical chances of getting such a line …” —

— Young American Indians Find Their Voice in Poetry —

— In celebration of Father’s Day, Host Liane Hansen speaks with poet E. Ethelbert Miller —

— Reviews Needed for Experimental Fiction Poetry Blog —

— Coffee’s Aroma Kick-starts Genes In The Brain —

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Tags: coffee, Dylan Thomas, E Ethelbert Miller, Mary Karr, Native American poetry, poet, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Richard Shelton

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

Poetry News For March 1, 2008

Poetry News:

— April is National Poetry Month. We will be celebrating it with a cover story on March 30, so we are inviting kids 13 and younger to submit their poems to be considered for inclusion —

— Arab ‘Poet Idol’ lures 70 million viewers —

— A good volume of selected poems should be more than a gathering of popular favourites —

— And now, in this 13th year of the column, I am delighted to announce our new steward — a writer variously described as “a spitfire” and “an inspiring teacher” — the incomparable Mary Karr —

— Poetic Ancestry: Mentors and Tormentors —

— She is also the editor of the literary journal ‘The Fairy Tale Review,’ but said she never set out to write a children’s book —

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Tags: Fraser Sutherland, John Newlove, Kate Bernheimer, Mary Karr, poet, Poetry, Poetry News, Robert Hass, Robin Skelton

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