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Poetry News:

1. — New issue of New England Review features fiction, poetry and prose —
2. — An article about me and my husband, Darryl Dybka on the Tennessean (local Nashville) paper’s website & in the Ashland City Times newspaper —
3. — This week, a chilling journey to ‘the shadow side’ with a master of psychology —
4. — Southern Gothic meets metafiction in a new novel by Minton Sparks —
5. — David Gest claims to have collaborated with pop legend on album setting poems to music —
6. — New works of poetry inspired by Katrina —

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There is a bluntness here that I respect. Both McCain and Obama are running for Caesar. I get that. But part of the game of running for Caesar has always been pretending you don’t want it, that the proles need you, and you’re one of them.

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New anthology:

“This wonderful and important anthology…is a solid act of generosity…a gift of testimony from poets across a broad range of experience and language, poems that tell us we can gather ourselves from the shock of upset and loss in life and continue…After Shocks: The Poetry of Recovery is a book that seeks to stand up and walk among us as a living thing, a force to activate the good and prepare us to weather the bad.”

—Afaa Michael Weaver
Author, The Plum Flower Dance
Alumnae Professor of English, Simmons College

The poets in After Shocks: The Poetry of Recovery for Life-Shattering Events:

Rita Dove · Simon Armitage · Carol Dine · Douglas Dunn · Cathy Smith Bowers · Patricia Wellingham-Jones · Donald Hall · Carol Ann Duffy · Molly Gloss · Thomas Lux · Pam Bernard · Elizabeth Bernardin · Sandor Kányádi · Stellasue Lee · Doug Anderson · Jim McGarrah · Sonja Besford · Martha Collins · Rachel Tzvia Back · Brian Turner · Nazand Begikhani · Liu Hongbin · Paul Sohar · Satyendra Srivastava · Marjorie Wentworth · Diana Woodcock · Majid Naficy · Shelley Davidow · J. P. Dancing Bear · Margaret Chula · Major Jackson · Lisha Adela Garcia · Ron Rash · Annie Finch · Barbara Mitchell · Roseann Lloyd · Joy Helsing · Nehassaiu deGannes · Peter Cooley · Paul Allen · R. G. Evans · Barbara G.S. Hagerty · Clinton B. Campbell · Iain Haley Pollock · Laurel Blossom · Willie James King · Satyendra Srivastava · Georgia Ann Banks-Martin · Kevin Young · Tolu Ogunlesi · Meir Wieseltier · Randall Horton · Richard Garcia · György Faludy · Bette Lynch Husted · William Stafford · Terri Wolfe · J. Stephen Rhodes · Gail Rudd Entrekin · Anthony S. Abbott · Faye J. Hoops · Annie Finch · Farideh Hassanzadeh · Rebecca McClanahan · Sister Lou Ella Hickman · Anna Rabinowitz · David Bottoms · Janet Winans ·Stellasue · Lee Alexa Selph · Dennis Ward Stiles · Renée Michele Breeden · Ellen Doré Watson · Joseph Mills · Liesl Jobson · Deborah P. Kolodji · Aimee Nezhukumatathil · Kurtis Lamkin · C.C. Thomas · Barbara Presnell · Naomi Ruth Lowinsky · Jericho Brown · Therése Halscheid · Becky Thompson · John McAllister · J. E. Pitts · William Greenway · Susan Varon · Shaindel Beers · Genie Cotner · Marcia Slatkin · David Bottoms · Barbara Mitchell · Joan Houlihan · Jenni Meredith · Rhett Iseman Trull · Pramila Venkateswaran · Diane Holland · Valerie Nieman · Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda · Susan Meyers · Meir Wieseltier · Satyendra Srivastava · Joseph Enzweiler · Jane Gentry · Rachel Eliza Griffiths · Gail Peck · Jennifer Barber · Ilya Kaminsky · Allison Hedge Coke · Steven Cramer · Linda Annas Ferguson · Kevin Simmonds · Gail Rudd Entrekin · Nancy Tupper Ling · Carole Baldock · Deema Shehabi · Kate Gale · Jeffrey Levine · Bernardo Atxaga

Order at www.poetryofrecovery.com

Women writers from lower and working class backgrounds will gather for the 2008 Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Series Spring Symposium to share their experiences and work with readers and each other.

Beyond Our Beginnings – Women Writers from Lower and Working Class Backgrounds will be held March 25-27 on the Vanderbilt campus. The discussions and readings are free and open to the public.

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Poetry News:

1. — Didi Menendez is reviewing online lit mags —
2. — Poets Walk Across Bridge; Read Whitman, Hart Crane —
3. — Biggest literary prize goes to little-known Norwegian —
4. — Poet William Meredith will be announced as a finalist for the National Book Awards —
5. — Court says Strauss heirs must pay “Rosenkavalier” royalties to heirs of librettist —
6. — Nidhi Shukla the sister of slain poetess Madhumita Shukla today expressed her apprehension that she might be attacked or even murdered —
7. — Acclaimed Nashville performance poet Minton Sparks’ first book is not quite what it seems —
8. — Stars pay homage to Yeats —

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The Creation Museum looks like another wonderful roadside attraction. Yay weirdo America! [and they have a blog]
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“In a survey of 1,700 women with ovarian cancer, Dr. Goff and other researchers found that 36 percent had initially been given a wrong diagnosis, with conditions like depression or irritable bowel syndrome.”

“‘Twelve percent were told there was nothing wrong with them, and it was all in their heads,’” Dr. Goff said.”

Gawd.