Poetry News:

1. — For this trio, vive la différence! —
2. — Yeats’s inspirations ranged from folklore to fascism —
3. — Minnesota to get state poet laureate —
4. — The fringe presses with a small margin for success —
5. — One pleasure of art comes from how accurately it can convey ambivalence —
6. — Baseball’s troubadour poet laureate —
7. — Les Murray’s world subtly radiates holiness in whimsical poems —
8. — Fiona Sampson’s exactitude and command of inner space in Common Prayer impress Adam Thorpe —

Deep down, I can’t help but think if we gave the kids in the Middle East 1,000s of electric guitars and amps and drumkits and rock and roll records, everything would turn out O.K.

Emily Dickinson:

Bees are Black, with Gilt Surcingles —
Buccaneers of Buzz.
Ride abroad in ostentation
and subsist on Fuzz.

Fuzz ordained — not Fuzz contingent —
Marrows of the Hill.
Jugs — a Universe’s fracture
Could not jar or spill.

Poetry News:

1. — Punctuation In Three Acts By Jessica Handler (congrats Jessica)—
2. — A hunk of meat crawls macabrely into the home of a strangely unperturbed poet —
3. — Philip Booth was a poet known for his explorations of existence and New England in an intense, sparse style —
4. — it’s ironic that these “lost” poems are in the limelight as the subject of a six-year lawsuit —
5. — Hunter Discusses Reshaping ‘Shopworn’ Language —
6. — From rags to riches, or how undergarments improved medieval literacy —
7. — On This [yesterday] Day —
8. — Of all the great English poets, Dryden must be the least enjoyed —
9. — Sharon Olds with Michael Silverblatt from Lannan Podcasts by Lannan Foundation —
10. — The Poem as Comic Strip #4 —
11. — The poetics of Americana with Kimiko Hahn and David Baker [links to MP3] —
12. — In our own day, no doubt Toni Morrison and Seamus Heaney have their fans, but I would be extremely surprised if, in 100 years’ time, anyone rated their work —

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Poetry News:

1. English professor Veronica Schuder’s freshmen have taken a unique approach to the concept of service learning by displaying poetry in a major traffic zone —
2. Berkeley event celebrates the book as a work of visual, as well as literary, art —
3. ‘Who charted / this anxious mappemonde,” asks John Ashbery —
4. Is it something weirdly obsessive or wholly missionary that causes a poet or artist to work repeatedly in one form? —
5. Poet and Publisher Bridges Cultures —
6. What W. B. Yeats‘ “˜Second Coming”™ Really Says About the Iraq War —

Just found out a friend of ours died. (The other Terry McMillan.)