Poetry News:
- — The most accomplished poetess in the English-speaking world today is Marianne Moore, a greying, mobile-faced, almost reckless spinster, born in St. Louis, Mo. in 1887 —
- — She started by looking at the $50000 question: According to its author, what famous poem was conceived during an opium-induced dream? —
- — Looking Back: The poet of the American Revolution —
- — ever since, heterosexual critics have turned themselves into pretzels trying to explain why Shakespeare reserved his most passionate love lyrics (”You are my all the world”) for a member of his own sex —
- — Haiku in English —
- — Gloria Steinem slams govt for shunting out Taslima —
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