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Poetry News For January 19, 2010

— New Literary Magazine Reviews @ NewPages —

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— In the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston traveled to Jamaica and Haiti with two Guggenheim grants. The result was the cultural study “Tell My Horse,” published in 1938. —

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— Colossus of odes: Philip Gross wins TS Eliot poetry prize for The Water Table —

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— A Few Good Thoughts on Rejection —

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— But I wish I had a nickel for every time somebody has said, “Did you know redheads are going extinct?” Then at least I’d have enough money to do what I’m about to do, which is to offer a $100 Reward for the first person who sends me a reputable scholarly publication that draws such a conclusion. —

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— A poem in honor of basketball pro Lindsay Whalen’s return to Minnesota —

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— Hee hee! It’s kind of funny, see? You, ha ha, novelists are, heh heh, just finally getting around to the humbling pain of, hoo hoo, being a poet —

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— Poetry corner – Statement from the Empire State Building by Grace Nichols —

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— Poem of the week: La Gioconda by Michael Field – An intriguing bit of ekphrastic poetry from a very intriguing pseudonymous pair —

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— In her memoir, ‘Just Kids’, rocker Patti Smith writes a love letter to Robert Mapplethorpe and a seedy, vanished New York —

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— The poetry of P.K. Page was ‘daring in scope’ —

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— Black nature poets find their voice in Oakland woman’s anthology —

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— Since then he’s immersed himself in a novel field of study, the use of poetry in scientific inquiry, or focusing the light of art on science to see what observations can be made. —

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— Tony Brewer reads three poems from his new chapbook Little Glove in a Big Hand (Plan B Press, forthcoming spring 2010), which is essentially a short novel in poem form about his cousin who died in a farming accident when they were both 4 years old [mp3] —

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— Kara Candito – Jan 17,2010
from Jane Crown’s Poetry Radio | Kara Candito is the author of Taste of Cherry (University of Nebraska Press), winner of the 2008 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. Her poems and reviews have appeared or will appear in such journals as Blackbird, AGNI, Prairie Schooner, The Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, Sycamore Review, Nimrod, Contrary Magazine, Best New Poets 2007, Diode, New South, and The Florida Review. She has received awards for her poetry, including an Academy of American Poets Prize and scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She has an MFA from the University of Maryland and is currently a PhD student in creative writing at Florida State University. [mp3] —

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— “Resort”for my father By Rafael Campo and MP3 here —

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Poetry News For January 18, 2010

— The best thing that could happen to poetry is to drive it out of the universities with burning pitch forks. Starve the lavish grants. Strangle them all in a barrel of water. Cast them out. The current culture, in which poetry is written for and supported by poets has created a kind of state-sanctioned poetry that resists innovation. —

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— New Non-Contest Poetry Book Publishers —

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— If grown-ups don’t read poetry, it’s not because they have a bone to pick with poets. The truth is even more intolerable: they prefer not to. —

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— Lit mags were once launching pads for great writers and big ideas. Is it time to write them off? —

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— The Death of the Slush Pile —

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— Logue casts a darker light on proceedings in the last stanza when, finally departing from Antigone, the poem evolves into a fatalistic tragedy-in-miniature, a progression of violence where man “becomes his own enemy”. —

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— Cantor and Cox argue that Austrian economics, which focuses on the freedom of the individual actor and the subjectivity of values, is suited to the study of literature and artistic creativity. —

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— Poetry Tips: Requesting a Review —

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— I’m also at work on my fourth collection of poetry (the third, “Fancy Beasts,” will be published by Milkweed Editions in March). This new collection is a sequence of poems in dialogue with Emerson’s “Beauty.” —

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— Poetry can be written with the potage of blood, sweat and tears. It survives less well on adrenaline and testosterone. —

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— The Law Finally Catches Up With Faux Literary Agent/Film Producer Robin Price —

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— Reading in private homes ensures that at least one other person will be embarrassed if nobody shows up. —

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— Former poet laureate defends merits of creative writing courses —

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— To this, I would remind Rasmusen that in academia, Ph.Ds in creative writing do not exist. —

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— A call to poets: stay alive —

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— It’s hard to write love poems because the tendency is to swoon, and it’s hard to swoon in an original way. So I took my time with this poem; I wasn’t in a hurry to finish it. I’d put it away for long periods of time and then come back to it and fiddle around with the metaphors and the sequence. —

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— Thick coats of black and green eye makeup partially made from lead may have boosted the immune systems of ancient Egyptians, a new study suggests. —

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— Alicia Ostriker’s new poetry collection, which won the National Jewish Book Awards’ top poetry prize last week, succeeds in making the “matter” of aging — bodily fatigue and mental dismay, vanishing beloveds and the hazards of longevity — fascinating and deeply moving. —

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— A former math and chemistry major with a love of NASCAR racing, Edward Byrne might not seem to be a typical poet. —

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— Jim Harrison’s love for northern Michigan helps drive his recent burst of productivity —

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— Oregon fisher poets gather to share lyrical lines in Astoria, Newport —

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— Poetry: To consider history, we must make it ours —

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— If it’s approachable, sincere and focused on love, family, motherhood, trust and/or gratitude, it was probably written by prolific poet and greeting card magnate Susan Polis Schutz. —

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— KUOW’s Amanda Wilde has been listening to an infectious Latin tune that’s kept toes tapping for more than 90 years. [mp3] —

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— Theodore Roethke astrology —

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— On Poetry: Choices in the new year —

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— The Poem’s Force: Images —

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— At Sotheby’s, Tracing the Lives Behind the Letters —

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— “Poetry is dead,” one of my students informed me from the back row of the classroom. These are not words that a high school English teacher likes to hear. —

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— Could it be that the author of Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice was not only a woman, but a clandestine Jew? —

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— Country Music Hall of Famer Carl Smith dies at 82 —

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— Taken together, these two complementary lines of investigation provide, to our knowledge, the first quantitative description of larva fishing by wild crows in its full ecological context. —

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— Somehow, when PK broke the syntax of a line – and you heard it best when she read her poems aloud – something cracked in you and opened out to the light —

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— There are poems in Kathleen Driskell’s Seed Across Snow (Red Hen, 2009) that delight, lines that electrify. —

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— and this is very much my argument about fairy tales – they are about women’s things that are being discussed in a kind of code —

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— I think of the first draft of a poem as a block of marble and, I am the sculptor carving away at it until the poem itself emerges from that bulk of stone. —

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— With its cover and endpapers the brilliant red of a chough’s beak, The Poetry of Birds begins with Marianne Moore’s ostrich (“He ‘Digesteth Harde Yron’”) and ends with Emily Dickinson’s “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers”. The book is arranged by species, rather than by author, which seems only fitting. —

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— Saturday poem: funhouse by Charles Bukowski —

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— Robert Philbin reviews Amy King’s Slaves to Do These Things on The TOWER Journal. —

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— The Moe Green Poetry Poetry Discussion hosted Rafael F J Alvarado & Brett-Candace – Join Rafael and Brett as they talk to Judith Kerman thee translator of Praises & Offenses: Three Women Poets from the Dominican Republic View Larger Image Praises & Offenses: Three Women Poets from the Dominican Republic Translated by Judith Kerman Aida Cartagena Portalatín Angela Hernández Núñez Ylonka Nacidit-Perdomo While the three poets presented in this bilingual collection present a rich contrast of linguistic and stylistic elements, each of them addresses shared political and cultural issues, illuminating what it means to be a woman living in the modern day Dominican Republic. Judith Kerman, who has translated a number of female poets from the Caribbean, notes that “contemporary women poets from the Dominican Republic are the most under-served group when it comes to English-language translation, in particular full-length collections or anthologies.” Thus, this exciting new anthology from BOA contains much that was previously unavailable to the English reader, and is a unique lit [mp3] —

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Poetry News For January 15, 2010

— I’ve suggested, on a Read Write Poem discussion forum, that we have Feedback for presses and journals with contests, like Ebay. —

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— Henri Matisse A Celebration of French Poets & Poetry —

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— Sisters In Opium: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Louisa May Alcott —

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— Cormorant Books is launching a new line of poetry books, it was announced on Thursday. —

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— An uncannily accurate show about WB Yeats brings the great poet’s work to life —

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— WHEN he had stopped crying, Tsutomu Yamaguchi would tell you why he called his book of poems “The Human Raft”. —

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— The verses of the Orihuela poet, Miguel Hernández, are to be sent to the moon as part of the celebrations which are taking place this year to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his birth —

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— Today International PEN reported that PEN Haiti president Georges Anglade and his wife Mireille Neptune died in the earthquake that rocked the country Tuesday. —

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— Edwidge Danticat and Simon Winchester appeal for help to Haiti. —

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— Poems composed by Emperor Akihito, Empress Michiko, Crown Prince Naruhito, Crown Princess Masako and other members of the Imperial Family as well as 10 selected works by members of the general public were recited during the ceremony known in Japanese as “Utakai Hajime —

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— if you write poems about fairy tales, science fiction, or science, you owe it to yourself to check out the world o’ speculative poetry —

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— Scientists find a burst of neural activity at the transition between not seeing and seeing, revealing a clear threshold that must be crossed for perception to occur. —

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— Objects we want are seen as closer: If we really want something, that desire may influence how we view our surroundings. —

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— The Mary Karr reading last night @ the Hobby Center was nothing short of amazing! —

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— The Hartford Club will host a boxing exhibition Friday night as part of The Connecticut Young Writers Trust Triple Knockout event that includes writing workshops, music and poetry. —

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— Canseco reacts to McGwire: “There’s no crying in baseball” hahaha thanks —

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— Alan Lightman—scientist, essayist, novelist, and poet—takes on the big questions —

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— Still more of the Best Poetry Books of 2009 —

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— What is a Witch? What is a Poet? What is a Poetess? —

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— American grad student works to bring late double A-bomb survivor’s poetry to U.S. —

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— Book art is a treat for the eyes at Oakland University gallery —

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Poetry News For January 14, 2010

— So how do funny poems actually work? Well, the same way serious poems work — there’s just, I think, less room for error —

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— Boris Pasternak -the Man who saw the other side of the Bolshevik Revolution —

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— Invicta: what a terrible choice of poem- The choice of Gordon Brown is also the choice of the Oklahoma bomber —

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— Ugly Reprint of Dante’s Inferno Aims For Gamers —

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— Once we understand Essbaum’s thrust, we can pierce her previous volumes, Necropolis (2008, neoNuma Arts) and Harlot (2007, No Tell Books). These books are best understood as two halves of the same quest: the reconciliation of spirit and flesh —

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— Machine Art lamps —

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— Minnesota Poetry: Sun Yung Shin’s “The House” —

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— Carol Anne Duffy’s Poetry corner – Snow Light —

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— I love spectator shoes —

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— Poem of the Week: “Airport Security” by Sherod Santos —

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— … On Poetry: Poets’ homes usually eccentric and full of character. —

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— CFS: Broadsided wants your poems. Once a month, Broadsided publishes a literary/artistic collaboration. —

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— Carl Sandburg Stops Making Sense: The Chicago poet’s overlooked adventures in linguistic anarchy. —

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— Why do we end poems the way we do? —

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— There’s not a thing about this process that comes easy. I sweat and suffer every syllable. —

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— New Lit on the Block :: Southern Women’s Review —

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— Sinclair sponsors 25th annual Paul Laurence Dunbar Poetry Writing Contest —

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— A Look Back in Anger: Poet-Prophet Gil Scott-Heron —

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— The Nation profiles Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, author of the (creepy, wonderful) short story collection There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby. —

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— Poet Philip Levine Recalls Life at the Factory
from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS Jeffrey Brown profiles Philip Levine, a former auto worker who became a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. [mp3] —

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— KUSP The Poetry Show with Dennis Morton James Scully, The Manhatten Review [MP3] —

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— “Mummies To Burn” from Slate Magazine – Poems by Charles Harper Webb [mp3] —

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— Puma Perl’s poetry and fiction have been published in over 100 print and online journals and anthologies.Her first chapbook, Belinda and Her Friends, published in 2008, was awarded the Erbacce Press 2009 Poetry Award; a full length collection, knuckle tattoos, will be published early in 2010. She performs her work in many venues, in and out of New York City, and was recently included in the Bowery Poetry Club’s yearly New Year’s Day Alternate Poetry Marathon. Upcoming features include Otto’s Shrunken Head Shout-Out, Cornelia Street Café’s Hydrogen Jukebox, as well as a book launch party at the Bowery Poetry Club, March 7,2010.She lives and writes on the Lower East Side and has facilitated writing workshops in community based agencies and at Riker’s Island, a NYC prison. She is a member of Harmattan Theater, a performance group dedicated to environmental and socially engaging theater. [mp3] —

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Poetry News For January 12, 2010

— The shortlist for the TS Eliot award, the UK’s most prestigious prize in poetry, has been announced. more here —

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— Sappho: the great poet of the personal —

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— English professor Leslie Brisman described Bloom as “gravely ill” in a Jan. 7 e-mail to students in Bloom’s fall seminar, “Shakespeare and the Canon: Histories, Comedies and Poems.” Bloom has been in the hospital since December. —

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— Tate acquires eight new works by William Blake —

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— Poem of the week: Waiting by WE Henley —

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— Barnes & Noble announces textbook rental service for college campuses nationwide —

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— This selection of poetry shows how Engonopoulos took Surrealism furthest, largely because he practiced both writing and painting (devoting himself primarily to painting after 1948) —

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— Morbid warnings on cigarette packs could encourage some people to smoke —

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— new Susan Howe at PennSound —

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— Microsoft Word and Office ’sales ban’ begins —

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— It is rare to find a book of poetry that makes a reader remember why one reads poetry, but Allison Benis White has written one. —

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— Poetry in Education: Literacy on the march —

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— Weekly Poem: ‘Our Valley’ from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS – Philip Levine is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently “News of the World” (2009). The poem above, “Our Valley,” originally appeared in the November 2008 issue of Poetry. [mp3] —

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— Is it her best poem ever? Clearly not but it was one I didn’t realize existed until I started preparing for the trip. —

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— new post on my afflictions blog —

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— The reclusive poet Philip Larkin is to become the subject of an interactive tourist trail in Hull as part of events to mark the 25th anniversary of his death —

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— Poet Halima Abadi was given 46 points out of 50 by the jury panel that described here poem as powerful, deals with sensitive issue in a smart way and passes a positive massage on Arab unity. —

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— In the age of e-mail, it has become easy — perhaps too easy — for readers to get in touch with authors. —

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— Former Fugitive, ‘Killer Poet,’ Denied Parole —

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— Copies of his book “Gary Burghoff: To M*A*S*H and Back: My Life in Poems and Songs” will be available for sale and autographing —

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Poetry News For January 11, 2010

— poetry x 12: a yearlong poetry-collection reading challenge —

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— Carl Sandburg astrology —

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— Published Without Permission —

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— Costa Award winner Christopher Reid tells Olga Craig how writing helped him to express the helplessness of watching his wife die. —

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— Ambassador for poetry: Iowa’s Poet Laureate combines writing, teaching —

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— Richard Wilbur, two-time Pulitzer-winning poet, to be honored in Key West —

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— Oxford poetry job up for grabs again following ’smear campaign’ controversy —

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— The Saturday poem: Pigeon by Lachlan Mackinnon —

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— Rossetti threw his love poems into the coffin with her. —

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— Even though narrative verse is a dead literary form today, Chaucer’s characters, like the raucous Wife of Bath, achieve an immortality similar to Shakespeare’s Falstaff or Dickens’ Mr. Pickwick. —

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— These special spiced olives are inspired by a poem by New England poet, Hayden Carruth —

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— Beckett is unusual for a writer in starting out enraged and disgusted, rather than being driven to it by critics, venal publishers, the mediocrity of public taste, or life itself on what Lucky – who is, among other things, a disappointed poet – calls “this bitch of an earth”. —

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— Book Review: Poetry Round-Up Robert Kelly, H. R. Stoneback, Patricia Carlin, Bruce Weber, Rebecca Wolff, Edward Sanders, Ann Lauterbach, Barry Sternlieb —

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— The book is haunted by loss: vanished lovers, spent dreams, erased landscapes. But hope drifts throughout it, too, drawn by Reyes in small details: fresh milk, clean rain, spring ligh —

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— Gordon Brown has described an attempted coup against him as “silliness” and revealed Nelson Mandela’s favourite poem gave him the strength to govern. —

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— Absence of verse disrupts our rhythm —

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— Alleged plagiarism sparks literary battle —

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— Pittsgrove artist has tell-tale style: Edgar Allen Poe heads —

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— Joe Milford Hosts David Oprava – “In a country where the corpses of political poems often litter our streets, with very little meaning being left behind, the poetry of Oprava offers an intense hope through the examination of a variety of issues, facing not only America, but the world. “American Means” offers readers of modern verse a narrative forum on homelessness, gay marriage, religion, corporate greed, health care, history, pop culture, nostalgia, and the end of the ice age. In this one book, Oprava has accomplished what many writers spend their whole literary careers working toward, he has given value back to our dreams.” -poet John Dorsey [mp3] —

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— Joe Milford Hosts Gina Myers – from Joe Milford Show – Gina Myers currently lives in Saginaw, MI, where she is the Associate Editor of 360 Main Street, the Reviews Editor of H_NGM_N, and the bookmaker for Lame House Press. Her first full-length collection of poetry, A Model Year, was published in July 2009 by Coconut Books [mp3] —

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— Joe Milford Hosts Rebecca Wolff – from Joe Milford Show – Wolff received her MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop, where she was an assistant editor of the Iowa Review. She created Fence Magazine in 1997, with an editorial staff including Jonathan Lethem, Frances Richard, Caroline Crumpacker, and Matthew Rohrer, and Fence Books in 2001.[2] Fence is now headquartered at the University at Albany, where Wolff teaches classes for the New York State Writers Institute in Poetry and Creative Writing. [mp3] —

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— Barbara Kingsolver from KCRW’s Bookworm What do Leon Trotsky, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera have to do with an invented author of Mayan and Incan historical romances? [mp3] —

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— Neeli Cherkovski hosted by Bill Gainer – from Jane Crown’s Poetry Radio – Bio: Neeli Cherkovski is a longtime contributor to the West Coast literary scene. Emerging from the Los Angeles underground of the Sixties, Cherkovski is an applauded poet, critic and literary biographer. He has written ten books of poetry, including the award winning Leaning Against Time , Elegy for Bob Kaufman and Animal; two acclaimed biographies, Bukowski: A Life and Ferlinghetti: A Biography; his book, Whitman’s Wild Children (a collection of critical memoirs), has become an underground classic. In the late 1960s Cherkovski co-edited the poetry anthology Laugh Literary and Man the Humping Guns with Charles Bukowski. Since 1975, Neeli has lived and worked in San Francisco . For ten years he was Writer-in-Residence at New College of California, where he taught literature and philosophy. [mp3] —

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