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Poetry News:

1. — The poet who may be prime minister —
2. — I still begin with the particular, and hope to arrive at the universal —
3. — Her husband, the poet Osip Mandelstam, wrote a famous epigram about the great leader, for which he met an early death —
4. — Vehicle of literary endeavour —
5. — With breakneck pacing he packed all of life and death into scintillating, transcendent incantations —
6. — Grace Paley’s poems read nicely as first thoughts, as impressions in a journal, a pause on an afternoon stroll —

(not a draft but I fear I will be adding to it)

Poem by an American

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I had to modify my RSS feed to show only a post’s snippet, sorry. This blog is getting splogged and scraped like mad lately and I find that very irritating.

Poetry News:

1. — Call for poets! —
2. — Using verse as a kind of verbal massage for your emotions cheapens it terribly. And it won’t do you much good —
3. — What’s the big deal about Small Press Month? —
4. — Why isn’t there more poetry on the Op Ed and opinion pages of this country’s newspapers? —
5. — new litmag alert —
6. — Being several & a few responses to the trio of “Numbers Trouble” articles in last fall’s Chicago Review (w/Juliana Spahr, Stephanie Young, Jennifer Ashton, Nathaniel Mackey, Kamau Brathwaite, Gloria Steinem, Ishmael Reed, Edouard Glissant, Erica Hunt, Tisa Bryant, M. Nourbese Philip, Julie Patton, Joan Retallack, Audre Lorde, Bhanu Kapil, James Scully, Paolo Friere, Bernice Johnson Reagon, and Barbara Foster) [link found here thank you] —
7. — Is this true? … I will send some positive vibes for Mr. Tate —
8. — Poets & Writers redesigned their website —
9. — The poet is himself subject to this illusion, and a great part of what is called poetry, although by no means the best part of it, consists in this sort of idealization by proxy —
10. — The Dictator in Prison, by Adélia Prado / translated from the Portuguese by Ellen Doré Watson from Poetry Daily —

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Poetry News:

1. — Some of his latest readings include the collected works of American poet Robert Creeley and poet Lyn Hejinian’s book “My Life.” —
2. — American Ghazals —
3. — Hickory poet Scott Owens will have his third chapbook of poems published online in April by the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature —
4. — A copy of a poetry book hailed as one of the most important in English history has been bought for £42,000 —
5. — Why the worst artists deserve recognition —
6. — Kenmore native is a poet and entrepreneur —
7. — To write poems about seeing, you have to disappear; it is essential to relinquish your so-called perspective —
8. — At a special SELECTED SHORTS live performance, the Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor and writer John Lithgow selected his favorite story poems from his anthology, THE POETS’ CORNER and read them along with celebrated performance artist Bill Irwin [MP3 ha that Gertrude Stein was fun] —
9. — Frost’s ‘47 lecture finally gets printed —
10. — No one, surely, will take exception to my list of phobic-friendly poetry —

Poetry News:

1. — The poems of Melissa Green reflect an acute sensitivity and a troubled upbringing and Breaking a Long Poetic Silence [with poems] —
2. — How Ted Kooser wooed 2,600 women with a few yearly lines —
3. — Double dactyl keeps poet Hodge amused and busy —
4. — Seduced by Sylvia Plath’s gore and gloom —
5. — Ladies’ Home Journal? What’s that got to do with poetry? —
6. — What make us interesting to each other are our various miseries —

Poetry News:

1. — If you like your poets tortured and doomed, then Alun Lewis (1915-44) is your man —
2. — A ‘mystical’ experience with two poets —
3. — The drunken fall of the house of Poe —
4. — Li-Young Lee has ushered us into 2008 with “Behind My Eyes,” his first collection of poems in seven years [may require bug me not]—
5. — DIY Poetry Publishing Cooperative Update —

Poetry News:

1. — He was, said his friend William Burroughs, an “inner space explorer”, but the Frenchman remained a solitary figure, outside any artistic grouping, almost the only exponent of his art, and almost certainly the only poet to record sounds and movements by swallowing a microphone —
2. — Our poet is in a far colder place than we are —
3. — Featured Book Review: Savage Beauty by Nancy Milford —
4. — the only time I’m a poet is when I am drafting and revising a poem, only in those moments —
5. — Indiana looks for successor poet to fill government post —
6. — Blogging the AWP, Round Two —
7. — Stanzas of Sin With a 21st-Century Spin —