Poetry News:
- — Let’s do it, let’s fall in luff [link via Avoiding the Muse thank you] —
- — Here’s a tortoise shell that reminds the poet of a soldier’s helmet and which leads me to a pet hate: computer games —
- — A two-century jinx on a potential literary goldmine held true today —
- — Galway Kinnell has recently turned 80, making him - with Richard Wilbur and John Ashbery - one of the grand old men of American poetry —
- — “At eighteen … [Obama] was already a much better poet than our former Secretary of Defense William Cohen, who keeps publishing terrible poetry” —
- — Jurek told BlackAmericaWeb.com that Scott-Heron was released by the New York State Department of Corrections about a month ago —
- — Baghdad suicide blast kills Iraqi poet who urged national unity —
- — Moazzam Begg, a former Guantanamo detainee whose poetry is featured in the collection, talks with Anthony Brooks —
Tags: Barack Obama, Cathy Park Hong, Frederick Seidel, Frieda Hughes, Galway Kinnell, Gil Scott Heron, Henri Cole, John Ashbery, Moazzam Begg, Rahim al Maliki, Robert Lowell