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Poetry News for July 23, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. The great poet William Carlos Williams called [her] “one of the major phenomena of history”
  2. Copper Canyon is the leading U.S. independent publisher of poetry
  3. As these four collections show, the field’s “outsider” status lets poets pursue art for its own sake
  4. Too many movies, poems, songs, TV shows deal in the familiar, offering the comfort of the predictable
  5. Rowling has already expressed an interest in covering the classics after her studies in Greek and Roman mythology at Exeter University in the 1980s
  6. Bold words: A poet pushes forward
  7. Home of poet Langston Hughes experiences its own Harlem renaissance
  8. Printers Ball shut down by police [wow, weird. link found here thanks] —
  9. when she evokes an environment, she does not efface herself from it, nor (despite the clarity of her eye) stand apart from it
  10. Poet finds an unsentimental harbor for her love of life

I picked up the new Harry Potter book when it went on sale at midnight and I have to say that was one of the strangest scenes I’ve encountered. 100s and 100s and 100s of kids going berserk over a BOOK going on sale. :)

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Poetry News For February 8, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. Can a great writer be blind to the world around him?
  2. Valid prose poems are exceedingly rare in our day
  3. a new wave of publishers and writers are harnessing the power of MySpace and print on demand to bypass their bricks-and-mortar competitors
  4. Julia Copus offers detailed advice to the poets who made the shortlist of her exercise on distance and description
  5. Roses Are Red/Is the Love Poem Dead?
  6. Buckeye-born essayists, poets, and others recall their early years in ‘Good Roots’

For our fifth issue, we are seeking creative responses to the work, life, and legacy of Sylvia Plath

Agoraphobic writer’s surprise Costa win

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