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Poetry News For January 16, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. The Uses of the Humanities, Part Two
  2. Angel Gonzalez, one of Spain’s most prominent poets and member of a literary generation known for its opposition to the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, has died at the age of 82
  3. Lincoln University, a historically Black college in Pennsylvania, is on a crusade to claim Melvin B. Tolson as one of its own
  4. Hamline’s joint JD/MFA in creative writing degree is the first of its kind in the nation
  5. The US Library of Congress caused outrage last month after it abolished Scottish literature headings.
  6. To judge from outward appearances, one might imagine that poetry occupies a place of unprecedented importance, at least in America
  7. Columbus poet Phil Boiarski jokes that only one letter separates the words poetry and poverty
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Poetry News For January 2, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. Vandals ransacked the interior of Homer Noble Farm, the summer home of the late poet Robert Frost
  2. Every New Year’s Eve, the normally dry Coast Guard log takes on a lyrical charm
  3. John Ashbery’s verse can be hard to understand, but the simple act of reading his latest collection, Notes From the Air, is a pleasure in itself
  4. The theatrics of Russia’s Silver Age poets come alive in Paul Schmidt’s theatrical translations
  5. Revisiting Cole Porter’s ‘Top’
  6. Landis Everson was one of the Berkeley Renaissance, an avant-garde poets’ group from the 1950s
  7. The Blush of the New
  8. Ken Tolson is the real-life grandson of Melvin B. Tolson, whose work as an educator, mentor and poet is highlighted in the new film The Great Debaters

Most clicked links of last month:

  1. Poet’s Choice” columnist Robert Pinsky fields questions and comments on this year in poetry
  2. Since 1945, only three poems have been published by the charming grey-haired spinster who has won every US poetry prize worth winning.
  3. Prize-Winning Poet Robert Hass On American Poetry, Bob Dylan, Impact of ‘The Big Lebowski’

Most popular posts of 2007:

  1. Once upon a time
  2. Poetry News for October 16, 2007
  3. Poetry News for October 10, 2007

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