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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 April 2, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. Poetic attention gives the circumstances of a moment in one life some of the enduring qualities of myth
  2. Equi is a poet of transformations, exploring the pathway linking inner and outer worlds, dream life and lived life, heart and mind
  3. “Dazzled” by both men‘ achievements (and even though Eliot mocked her in his verse: “But women intellectual grow dull”), she wrote three books of poetry in the 1920s.
  4. Cor Van den Heuvel has edited a new anthology of baseball haiku, including a poem by Jack Kerouac
  5. Little is known about her life. But her poetry remains popular today.
  6. Taken as a whole, contemporary Eastern European poetry provides just the right models of poetry turning into an antithesis of power and authoritarianism
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