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Poetry News For November 17, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. When the Civil War erupted in April 1861, Walt Whitman, at age 42, was too old to bear arms in the Union Army. It seemed that his best days as a poet were behind him as well.
  2. Lesbian Poetry Retrospective Part II
  3. Governor Doyle appoints Marilyn Taylor as poet laureate
  4. Professor attempts to raise profile of poetry
  5. Low-residency MFA programs offer writers the chance to grow from a distance.
  6. Early recording of Beat poet Gary Snyder surfaces
  7. What Is Art For?

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Poetry News For May 15, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. If you didn’t browse the comments when I posted about M.F.A. programs last month, you really should: they veered quickly and entertainingly toward gang warfare, with the Crips arguing against such programs and the Bloods arguing for them
  2. Mary Oliver’s ‘work is loving the world’
  3. Strip
  4. A sheaf of post-April poetry and poets
  5. If poets were cowboys, James Tate would be The Man with No Name. It would be the spaghettiest western ever; his shadow would fall across the saloon door and everything inside would go quiet.
  6. The future of poetry magazines
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Poetry News For April 6, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. A translator from many tongues, she loves a pun, even when mourning a dead pooch
  2. Atlanta Sings of Poems Electric, Past and Present
  3. What We Miss if We Pass on Poetry (Hint: Not Poems)
  4. Langston Hughes, 1902-1967: The Poet Voice of African-Americans
  5. Houston poet wins $50,000 award
  6. Reed Whittemore, Handyman to the Muse: Influential Poet Writes the Work of His Life

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Poetry News For February 4, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. Interview: Poet Major Jackson
  2. Just when you think that nothing is sacred in a Koch poem …
  3. Small press has big dreams for writers in N.C.
  4. Need a new password? Here’s literary help.
  5. VJTI lecturer beaten over Shivaji poem
  6. Beating the odds, Alaska Quarterly Review reaches 25th year
  7. For him, it’s a given that any poet carries around a near encyclopaedia of every line or poem that’s ever affected them
  8. Security forces have arrested a man suspected to be an aide of the prime suspect in the theft in India of the Nobel Prize medallion of poet Rabindranath Tagore
  9. Poet-mania: Mary Oliver’s sold-out appearance sparks a ticket frenzy on Craigslist
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Poetry News For January 7, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. Liam O’Gallagher, 90, a Beat Avant-Gardist and Teacher, Dies
  2. The question of whether literary writing can be taught seems to have been decided, at least in North America, by the sheer number of creative writing grads
  3. Borges and the Foreseeable Future
  4. A founding co-editor of the journal L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, he is the author of over 30 books of poetry and a collection of innovative critical essays, …
  5. The “Iliad” and “Odyssey” of medieval Persia is presented in a hefty new English translation
  6. Must we admire the poet to honor his work?
  7. Here then is a justification of the humanities that is neither strained (reading poetry contributes to the state’s bottom line) nor crassly careerist
  8. ‘Our World’ by Mary Oliver
  9. Charles Simic sets scenes, probes inner realm in new collection ‘Sixty Poems’
  10. Shel Silverstein, 1930-1999: Poet, Writer, Composer, Singer, Musician and Artist

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