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This is the last post for a while. Good luck with your poetry. See you in the   funny papers   lit mags.

• — British publishing house Faber & Faber said it’s setting up its first creative writing school in Canada. —
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• — Lately, poems happen because I work for them. —
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• — Hulu – The Nobel Prize: Exiled Polish Poet Czeslaw Milosz Wins 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature —
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• — More poetesses close to Million’s Poet title —
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• — Are your poems flat as a family snapshot? Learning to release the energy in your images can open up your poetry’s hidden depths. —
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• — workshop redux: give me a (line) break —
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• — Inauguration poet praises virtue of work —
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• — Hearing people talk at cocktail parties may be easier if you’ve been musically trained, according to new research that shows music fine-tunes certain language abilities in the brain. —
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• — Insect Museum’s annual Hexapod Haiku Challenge returns —
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• — An analysis of Jimi Hendrix’s guitar playing and song writing is presented in light of the effects of his mixed-right-handedness on motoric and conceptual processing. It is argued that (i) his mixed-handedness allowed him greater integration of the roles of his left and right hands in guitar playing and (ii) his right-handedness conferred specific benefits in playing a left-handed guitar. In terms of his song writing, the greater interhemispheric interaction (and consequent greater access to right hemisphere processing) associated with mixed-handedness is argued to characterise aspects of his lyrics and vocal delivery —
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• — Asahi Haikuist Network —
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• — A turn from recent trends in literature, this book trusts language to reveal the world. —
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• — Your rules for writing-Saturday’s selection of expert advice on how to write fiction has generated a lot of interest. But we’d like to know your maxims, too —
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• — NewPages February Lit Mag Reviews —
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• — Literary legacy: In 1899, Paul Laurence Dunbar visited Denver to ease his TB and write. Today, a British scholar is intrigued by three of the pivotal figure’s works that saw print only in this paper —
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• — Understanding Haiti’s Catastrophe through a Poet’s Eyes —
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• — An octogenarian lensman yesterday unveiled never-before-seen photos of Marilyn Monroe lounging around a New York apartment with poet Carl Sandburg nine months before her death. —
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• — Like Larkin, Tony Hoagland seems to draw inspiration and fluency as a poet from his disappointment and frustration as a human being. —
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• — There are 15 or 20 better poets in America than Tony Hoagland, but few deliver more pure pleasure. —
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• — For the second year running, a poet published by Twin Cities publisher Graywolf Press has won the prestigious (and lucrative) Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. —
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• — Cathy Smith Bowers joins Wordplay! —
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• — The 5,000 students graduating each year from creative writing programs (not to mention the thousands more who attend literary festivals and conferences) do not include insecurity, rejection and disappointment in their plans. —
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• — Butter leads to lower blood fats than olive oil —
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• — Fence Seeks Poetry Editor to Fill Open Spot —
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• — poetry advice column: what should you learn from rejection letters? —
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• — Colum McCann reads “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats at the 2008 Tribute to Chinua Achebe. [mp3] —
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• — Language and Listening —
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• — Sun Microsystems CEO’s 17-syllable resignation announcement is a useful innovation that could be more widely applied —
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• — I wrote this poem at the end of the Fall semester of 2008, so it’s about a year old. I usually begin a poem with one line that I mutter under my breath for days, until I can’t hold it in any longer. —
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• — Historically Speaking: Colonial-era female poet born in Lebanon, Conn. —
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• — Gil Scott-Heron, survivor —
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• — Is it vanity to self-publish? —
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• — DOD Identifies Army Casualties —
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• — It’s a profound statement, which is why in the 500+ pages of The Pleasure of the Damned you’ll find no sonnets, no sestinas, no haiku. —
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• — The Winter of Our Self-Doubt: Writing, Solitude, and Companionship —
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• — Minister to order poetry reading sessions in all radio stations —
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• — Aberystwyth University in poetry ‘fevered brow’ test —
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• — Ignorance as an asset —
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• — Selected as the first place winner of qarrtsiluni’s 2009 poetry chapbook contest, Pamela Johnson Parker’s A Walk Through the Memory Palace is a gorgeous little treasure–a glossy chapbook with ten poems that sing as if they are 100. —
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• — DOD Identifies Army Casualties —
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• — Jack Kerouac’s Literary Estate in Limbo —
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• — Defacing books: effluence of engagement —
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• — Joe Milford Hosts WF Roby – Feb 07,2010 from Joe Milford Show | Great language poet and bad-ass. [mp3] —
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• — DOD Identifies Army Casualty —
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• — Poet Langston Hughes was born on 1 February 1902 in Joplin, Missouri.Personal planets in a combination of Aquarius, Pisces and Capricorn can be translated to humanitarian (Aquarius) dreams (Pisces) relating to (what ought to be) reality (Capricorn). —
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• — SPD’s Poetry Bestsellers Jan 2010 —
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• — “Dizzy in Your Eyes:” El Paso poet and author Pat Mora’s poetry gives voice to teen angst —
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• — Joanna Rawson’s collection of poems unrest is one of four books of poetry nominated for this year’s Minnesota Book Awards. —
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• — Ex-Iowa Poet Laureate Robert Dana dies —
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• — When do you think a writer crosses the line between helping a publisher sell their book and entering into a cycle destructive to their creativity? —
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• — … Fifteen Poems from Europe. —
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• — This time, a simultaneously hardbitten and tender example of ‘cowboy poetry’ —
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• — American Poetry Review, The, Jan/Feb 2010 —
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• — With its daintily drawn cover artwork on a purple ground, this selection from the Poet Laureate’s work comes all tricked out like some Valentine’s Day gift. Beware. —
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• — Steve Castro’s “Un monstruo oscuro encima de una gente clara” —
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• — This program was inspired by an exhibition of photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, “Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans.” Frank’s book first appeared in 1959, and presented an unvarnished view of American life in all its hope, despair, and diversity. Our program includes two stories inspired by pictures in the exhibition; a rollicking poem by Frank’s friend Allen Ginsberg; and stories by two contemporary ?migr?s: Alexsandar Hemon (“Good Living,” read by Boyd Gaines) and Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie (“The Thing Around Your Neck,” read by Condola Rashad.) [mp3] —
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One of my guinea fowl laid an egg. One. Egg. Right on the snow. First one.

• — Kearney’s The Black Automaton proves cryptic — it speaks a trickster’s hex, pushing us towards a sentiment that the tragedies of today might soon bleed into the mythologies of the past, if we’re not careful. —
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• — Each poem in this sequence is packed to the brim with almost illicit words and inscapes — a mixture of the fantastical and the quasi-theoretical. —
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• — It’s funny, I’ve never thought of food as a source of inspiration for my poems, but lately everyone has been pointing this out to me, as if I were obsessed with eating. —
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• — They discuss, among other things, his insane use of exclamation points, how he wants you (befuddled & awestruck) while holding his hand, that flimsy curtain between Memory & Imagination, and his upcoming aesthetic compound. Look out New World! —
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• — These three poems are some of the latest from Linh Dinh’s newest book, Some Kind of Cheese Orgy. —
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• — Today we’ve released the newest episode of “PoemTalk”–number 28 in our series. This one is about Jack Spicer’s early poem, “Psychoanalysis: An Elegy. [mp3] —
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• — Scott of the Antarctic’s final diary published online —
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• — why poetry is awesome —
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• — KQED: The Writers’ Block Podcast Patti Smith reads from JUST KIDS, her memoir about life with Robert Mapplethorpe. [mp3]—
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• — DOD Identifies Army Casualty —
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• — Etta James, We’re Pulling For You —
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• — Archival recordings of poet Weldon Kees, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded in Berkeley, California in 1952. [mp3] —
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• — The delightful folks at the Poetry Society of America have invited me to review chapbooks in this space, and I jumped at the chance. —
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• — Pay It Forward: Elevation Leads to Altruistic Behavior —
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• — Tigers GM fulfills an injured police officer’s dream —
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• — Sheepfarmer’s Daughter download free —
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• — Lee Mallory continues to wow crowds at Newport Beach coffeehouse with his words and antics. —
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• — Abstract Thoughts? The Body Takes Them Literally. —
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• — Living Writers WCBN – T Hetzel with Thomas Lynch [mp3] —
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• — Beth Bachmann of Vanderbilt University is the 2010 winner of The Kate Tufts Discovery Award, given to honor a poet’s first book. —
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• — Professor Laura Lomas Is Winner of 2009 Modern Language Association Prize, in United States Latina/O Literary and Cultural Studies —
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• — Passion Maps explores the disorientation of a shift between cultures. —
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• — Gherasim Luca, surrealist poet, artist, and theorist, has finally been translated into English, with two volumes this year: The Passive Vampire and Inventor of Love & Other Writings. —
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• — The Art Of Poetry: A Conversation With W.S. Merwin —
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That’s it for the week; I feel like crap. Have a good weekend.

LOL that last part wasn’t sarcastic.

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• — Indie Presses Find a Home on Campuses —
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• — Part poetry and part field guide, Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds combines more than 100 poems by Elizabeth Bishop, Charles Simic, Sylvia Plath, Wallace Stevens, and others with carefully matched illustrations by Sibley. —
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• — Timothy Steele’s Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt against Meter: the case for a new Formalism Part 2 —
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• — Baby pictures of poets —
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• — The Thai based Assistance Association for Political Prisoners – Burma (AAPP-B) has called for the release of poet Saw Wei at the earliest possible date, as his release was set for the 21st of this month. —
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• — “Let the laughers stand up!” shouted a woman who I think was Eileen Myles. “Let’s interrogate the laughers.” —
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• — Where Fear Still Rules, Speaking Freely Makes a Comeback —
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• — Minnesota Poetry: Greg Hewett’s “Modern Living” —
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• — Author Maxine Hong Kingston switches to poetry —
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• — Commentary, art, and poetry by Eliette Markhbein, M.S., M.A. Founder, The Therapeutic Arts Program, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, The Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York City —
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• — DOD Identifies Army Casualty —
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• — DOD Identifies Marine Casualty —
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• — Achilles in the trenches: The Iliad and the poetry of WW1 —
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• — new lit mag alert —
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• — When artists are separated from the culture at large and held up as the Other, it only serves to further alienate us from our own creative force. —
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• — The Chaos …is a poem often used to demonstrate how difficult it is to pronounce words in English… —
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• — Whether or not Elinor (Frost’s wife) blamed Frost for the death isn’t known (at least to me). It might have been enough that Frost blamed himself. The poet’s ability to convincingly portray the wife shows that he was fully aware of how he might be (or have been) perceived. —
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• — Can’t there be something great in the sheer number of poets working today? Can it be like a fabulous bazaar, poems bunched and offered like flowers– exotic sellers, startling colors? —
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• — EA SENDS FOOTBALL FANS TO HELL WITH ‘DANTE’S INFERNO’ IN COMPANY’S FIRST SUPER BOWL COMMERCIAL —
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• — San Francisco Poet Laureate Diane di Prima will give her inaugural address Tuesday, weaving a theme of how poetry fosters community —
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• — Delirious Hem is running This is What a Feminist [Poet] Looks Like forum #2, where each day this week you will find new responses. —
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• — Poster poems: Alliteration This month, building blocks: highlighting not a subject or form, but the oldest device used to organise poetry in English —
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• — This lack makes the poems feel kind of ghostly and disembodied: There’s an “I” in the poem of course, but it’s more like a very attentive spirit —
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• — Poem of the week: What the Mountain Saw by Philip Gross This time, an exemplary story-poem from the winner of the TS Eliot prize —
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• — Through a liberal application of her favorite poems, Morgan argues that the act of reading poetry changes the way the reader thinks, that bare facts are not enough to elicit good business decisions, and that the act of poetic deconstruction helps develop skills that are applicable to business —
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• — from NPR: Selected Shorts This program features unusual points of view. First, an excerpt from Colum McCann’s National Book Award-winning novel, >em< Let the Great World Spin< /em> records the moment just before Philippe Petit’s now-famous walk between the Twin Towers in 1974. The reader is Broadway star Brian Stokes Mitchell. Second, the narrator of Sherman Alexie’s “Salt” is a substitute obituary-writer for his local Washington State newspaper. The reader is Oscar nominee David Strathairn. [mp3] —
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• — from PEN American Center Podcasts Marie Ponsot reads from The Theater of Night by Alberto Álvaro Ríos at the 2007 Beyond Margins Celebration. [mp3] —
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• — Weekly Poem: ‘Centuries of Ashes’ Patrick Sylvain is a Haitian-American writer, essayist and poet, and instructor of Haitian language and culture at Brown University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. [mp3] —
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• — The Poetry Show: Santa Cruz County’s First Poet Laureate – Gary Young [mp3] —
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• — Why danger can be good for children guess it is time to bring back these toys [youtube] —
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• — Jeff Bezos in Disagreement With A Major Publisher, Pulls All Their Works’ “Buy Buttons” Off Amazon —
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• — After years of mimicking her betters at poetry, she found her calling —
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• — Zora Neale Hurston remembered on 50th anniversary of her death —
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• — Fine writers, lousy spouses —
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• — Accompanying the photos is a sestina by Mr. Trinidad called “Playing With Dolls,” in which his mother defends his doll habit —
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• — A Reading List for the Grieving —
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• — A Kittery Point poet and teacher, Green spent four weeks at The MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, N.H., working on a manuscript of 100 poems that she wanted to revise. —
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• — Ruth Padel on Derek Walcott, ‘dirty tricks’, and the worst mistake of her life —
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• — A love poem is principally a way of wooing, a strategy for seduction – and the Poetry Archive has compiled a collection you can send to your beloved on their mobile phone —
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• — New Lit Mag Alert —
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• — Unusual Calls for Submissions —
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• — Pros and Cons of Interning at a Lit Mag —
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• — Homeless young adults express themselves through poetry, build community, better lives —
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• — 3 questions with former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky —
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• — Rarely do I come across a book of poems that reads as though it had to be written. When I do, I’m reminded why I read poems in the first place —
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• — For starters Bukowski’s assertion that he was born a bastard is inaccurate: he was born on August 16th, 1920; his parent had married, albeit only a month before, on July 15th. —
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• — Yet without medical classification, but real in its effects, let us call this pandemic by the name poet-oxemia. —
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• — Howling at the Moon: The Poetics of Amateur Product Reviews —
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• — “What is a cat but a reduced lion?” So muses the fictionalized Joseph Brodsky character in Andrey Khrzhanovsky’s whimsical and inventive film, A Room and a Half. —
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• — There are a few things that make Wendy Barker, poet-in-residence and professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio, angry. One of them is how intimidated people can be of poetry. —
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• — Reviews of New Fiction, Poetry, Mystery, Science Fiction and Comics — Publishers Weekly, 1/25/2010 —
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• — Can creative writing ever be taught? —
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• — Spitball The Literary Baseball Magazine has moved —
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• — Timothy Steele’s Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt against Meter: the case for a new Formalism —
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• — DOD Identifies Army Casualty —
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• — DOD Identifies Army Casualty —
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• — Poetry roundup | Book review —
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• — Uncovered: Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner —
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• — How does an outfielder know where to run for a fly ball? —
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• — Alan Lightman—scientist, essayist, novelist, and poet—takes on the big questions —
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• — Patricia and Edward Submitted by Ryan from My Parents Were Awesome —
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• — Abandon All Poetry, but Enter Hell With an Attitude —
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• — The Romantic poets: The Human Image and The Divine Image by William Blake —
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• — Invictus aside, poetry in cinema is embarrassing —
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• — Poetry, in its power to burn experience into the soul in a concentrated perfection of language often becomes an unlikely balm. —
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• — NaPoWriMo 2010 is coming! [from No Tell Motel thank you]—
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• — A few years after the dedication, he decided to revisit “his” high school. By then a different principal was in charge. The new man thought Sandburg was a panhandler and threw him out. —
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• — George Tsongas dies: poet, North Beach fixture —
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• — Women and Disability and Poetry (Not Necessarily in That Order) —
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• — More drawings from my notebook that is so small, I can only fit the faces of people I draw. Not to be confused with the online social network Facebook. —
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• — Cerebral Meditation Hosted Roy Johnston – Join Roy as he talks to Stanley Plumly about his Keats Bio Poets who die young often have surprisingly lively posthumous careers. John Keats (1795-1821) provides the most celebrated example: Almost immediately after his death in Rome, at the age of 25, he entered the realm of legend. Though his poetry wasn’t much read at the time, he himself was quickly transformed into a figure of myth. For Shelley — who drowned with a copy of Keats’s last book in his pocket — he was “like a pale flower by some sad maiden cherished,” as he put it in “Adonais,” his elegy for the poet. At the opposite extreme, Shelley’s good friend Lord Byron detested Keats and snubbed him, referring to him in one letter as “a dirty little blackguard.” For the aristocratic Byron, Keats was a “Cockney” upstart — more a rank weed than a pale lily. But for Keats’s admirers, his humble origins only enhanced the pathos of his fate. For William Butler Yeats, Keats was both the “coarse-bred son of a livery-stable keeper” and a woebegone schoolboy “with face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window,” the very epitome of sensuousness unsatisfied. [mp3] —
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• — The Reading Is Poetry Review – “Where Verse Becomes A Learning Lesson” Join Hip Hop Jazz Poet A K Toney as he reads and reviews selections from “Skovbo” by Viggo Mortenson. (Perceval Press 2009) A Collection of photographs, poems, and quotes. (in English, Spanish, and Danish [mp3] —
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• — The Blood-Jet Writing Hour hosted by Rachelle Cruz – Join Rachelle as she Talks to Alicia Ostriker – Alicia Ostriker, twice a finalist for the National Book Award, has published 11 volumes of poetry, most recently No Heaven. Her most recent prose book is Dancing at the Devil’s Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic. She has received awards and fellowships from the NEA, the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the Poetry Society of America, and the San Francisco State Poetry Center, among others. Ostriker lives in Princeton, NJ, is Professor Emerita of English at Rutgers University, and teaches in the low-residency Poetry MFA program of New England College. ***** Rachelle Cruz, Poet and Host of “The Blood-Jet Writing Hour” Radio Show www.thebloodjet.wordpress.com www.rachellecruz.com [mp3] —
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• — Jo Mcdougall – from Joe Milford Show | Jo McDougall is the author of five books of poetry: The Woman in the Next Booth, BkMk Press/University of Missouri-Kansas City; Towns Facing Railroads and From Darkening Porches, University of Arkansas Press; and, most recently, Dirt and Satisfied with Havoc, Autumn House Press, Pittsburgh. Her memoir in progress, Daddy’s Money, focuses on growing up on a rice farm in the Arkansas delta. [mp3] —
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• — Annie Finch explores the metaphorical meaning of winter. [mp3] —
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• — Dharma Poetry: WH Auden, a Reflection on Haiti and Human Suffering —
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• — Mary Oliver rose to fame on her nature poems. Yet some of her most ardent fans are preachers who spend even the loveliest Sunday mornings inside, wearing starchy clothes. —
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• — Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and her Family’s Feuds —
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• —Today the Governor’s office put out a press release announcing the appointment of Cathy Smith Bowers as North Carolina’s new Poet Laureate and |A few links for the new laureate … | Queens professor named N.C. poet laureate |Cathy Smith Bowers named poet laureate –
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• — Jazz ensemble merges 18th century poetry with Brazilian rhythms —
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• — Spring 2010 Hardcovers: Poetry —
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• — Write for yourself first. I don’t mean write cryptically, so that no one knows what you mean; that is silly. I mean, find your own voice and use it. —
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• — Self-Published Poets · Trouble and Honey by Jilly Dybka —
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• — why poetry is bullshit —
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• — An introduction to the poetry of William Wordsworth —
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• — Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry: Among other Histories —
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• — Provincetown Crossing —
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• — Bacteria Are More Capable of Complex Decision-Making Than Thought —
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• — The company’s “Poetry in a Bottle” contest will award the winning poet with a three-night stay in a luxury suite at the Esencia Estate www.esenciaestate.com in Mexico’s Riviera Maya, one of the first spots to serve Ikal1150 wines and a member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World. —
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• — William Major and Bryan Sinche, writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education, consider the vatic pronouncements of Ralph Waldo Emerson and conclude, “This is the prose of a crazy person.” —
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• — Shining a Light on a Forgotten Poet —
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• — An introduction to the poetry of Robert Burns —
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• — The Poetry Show: Rabbie Burns and the work of other Scottish poets [mp3] —
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• — New Wordplay V shows on the archive —
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• — Weekly Poem: ‘Ports of Sorrow’
  from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS Patrick Sylvain is a Haitian-American writer, essayist and poet, and instructor of Haitian language and culture at Brown University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. [mp3] —
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• — The Moe Green Poetry Poetry Discussion hosted Rafael F J Alvarado & Brett-Candace – Carmen Giménez Smith is an assistant professor of creative writing at New Mexico State University, and publisher for Noemi Press as well as editor-in-chief of Puerto del Sol. Her work has most recently appeared in Ploughshares and Colorado Review and is forthcoming in A Public Space, jubilat, Denver Quarterly and New American Writing. Her collection of poetry, Odalisque in Pieces, was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2009. A memoir called Bring Down the Little Birds will be published by University of Arizona Press in 2010. [mp3] —
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• — Weekly Poem: ‘Root’ from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS Terrance Hayes is is the author of three books of poems: “Muscular Music” (1999) [mp3] —
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• — Today on 25 January – though not because of a formal holiday or an official laureateship – Scots (and friends of Scotland) meet to celebrate the life and works of our bard, Robert Burns, at Burns Suppers at home and in far-flung locations across the globe. —
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• — Trouble in poetry paradise —
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• — On the eve of the next big announcement from Apple, a look at a poem from Gary Snyder, the Beat-era poet who has written about his Macintosh computer. —
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• — Prince Honors the Minnesota Vikings in Song —
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• — Review For Galatea & I’ll Post Your Pet’s Visage —
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• — Ursula Le Guin leads revolt against Google digital book settlement —
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• — One of the things I am very proud about in my poems is the use of science and biology as metaphor or image for jumpstarting a poem. I take great pains to do extensive research for my poems and I feel like I owe that truthfulness or “fact” to the readers when I do employ imagery from the natural world. I —
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• — read about the supposed demise of poetry readers here —
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• — Carol Rumens: This week, the Guardian and the Observer are running a series of seven pamphlets on the Romantic poets. To coincide with it, I’m blogging daily on one of each day’s selected works —
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• — National Book Critics Circle Prize Nominees Are Chosen —
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• — Abraham Sutzkever, 96, Jewish Poet and Partisan, Dies —
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• — What Is Careerism for Poets These Days Anyway? —
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• — chapbook sale —
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• — Reasons to Fuck Poetry —
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• — So, where does a poet like me go from here? —
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• — Want to convince? Use abstract rather than concrete language —
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• — Drawing connections between poetry, past and present —
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• — On Poetry: Poets, writers can offer their words for world peace —
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• — Nobel prize winner is looking forward to lessons in poetry —
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• — DOD Identifies Army Casualty —
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• — DOD Identifies Navy Casualty —
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• — Parsing the Poetry Best-Seller List —
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• — Loved This —
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Thanks for voting for Ehlers-Danlos Network Cares in the Chase Community Giving on Facebook. They ended up 23 out of 100, which isn’t bad for something no one has ever heard of.

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• — 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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• — 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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• — Ask a Book Question #76 (Good Readers, Good Readings)
• — MLK Jr. Art & Poetry Competition: Winners, grades 4-5 —
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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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• — 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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• — 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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• — 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 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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