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Poetry News For May 3, 2008

Poetry News:

— Using a complex array of perforations, the pavilion’s surface allows light to pass through creating shifting patterns, which-during specific times of the year-transform into the legible text of a poem —

— UMKC’s New Letters is a winner in the National Magazine Awards —

— Poet staves off poverty in exotic Edmonton —

— and the winner was a student from the Virgin Islands who recited “Frederick Douglass” by Robert E. Hayden —

— Jason Shinder, 52, Poet and Teacher, Dies —

— Seeking 21st century poetic satire —

— The winner of the Seattle PI’s inaugural poetry contest is her own font of creativity —

Most popular outgoing links for April 2008, as far as Feedburner is concerned:

“Unfortunately, poetry in general has a bad reputation”

“UNM’s director of creative writing said she will resign because her colleague has not been punished for posing in sexually explicit photos with students.”

“Taking the Pain Out of Poetry”

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Tags: Jason Shinder, Marie-Caroline Moir, New Letters, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Robert Hayden, Tim Bowling

Poetry News For December 17, 2007

Poetry News:

— Though still a student at Lincoln University, he has already published two books of poems, The Weary Blues and Fine Clothes to the Jew —

— Prize-Winning Poet Robert Hass On American Poetry, Bob Dylan, Impact of ‘The Big Lebowski’ —

— Singing the songs of love —

— Anne Stevenson: the secret life of a poet —

— Sometimes, as in Jill Rosser’s new collection of poetry, it’s a comic, irritable gesture that recalls the abyss a footstep away —

— While many young people countrywide are venturing into the music industry to earn a living, Mochedisi in Kasane is curving a niche for himself as a praise poet. [more about praise poetry in southern Africa here and over here and some here. —

— For the second year in a row, an Indianapolis writer will have had a work selected for the annual Best American Poetry series —

— From hospital room, Diane Middlebrook recalls meeting Ted Hughes —

— Poet, biographer, feminist Diane Middlebrook dies of cancer at 68 —

— Poetry lovers, put this on your list —

— What a lineup of gallery artists: five Nobel laureates, five poet laureates, and more Pulitzer Prize-winning and National Book Award-winning writers than a curator can count —

— Writer discovers poem on A Prairie Home Companion —

— It is one of the weirder ironies of literary history that the experiment of modernist poetry in English was launched by a pair of Americans living in London who had little but contempt for the complacent, hide-bound literary scene in which they moved —

— I had stumbled upon the underground alliterative tradition of English poetry —

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Tags: Anne Stevenson, books, Chris Forhan, David Yali Manisi, Diane Middlebrook, Ezra Pound, Jill Rosser, Langston Hughes, Manisi, Mochedisi, New Letters, poet, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Robert Hass, Shaindel Beers

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