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Poetry News For June 4, 2008 — 1/2

Poetry News:

  1. — Wendy Cope: ‘I don’t want to be laureate’ —

  2. — What is a failed poet? —

  3. — The idea for a skull and roses came from an illustration in “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam,” a collection of poems by the Persian poet who died in 1123 —

  4. — The trouble with neuroaesthetics —

  5. — When Hemingway turned his hand to verse —

  6. — In time for the Stanley Cup Finals, a Q&A with Randall Maggs, author of the first great book of hockey poetry —

  7. — Poetry: Read It When You’re Drunk —

Most popular outgoing links for May, as far as Feedburner is concerned:
Readers Not Wanted: Student Writers Fight to Keep Their Work Off the Web

Regarding the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize

If you didn’t browse the comments when I posted about M.F.A. programs last month, you really should: they veered quickly and entertainingly toward gang warfare, with the Crips arguing against such programs and the Bloods arguing for them.

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Poetry News For February 24, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. — Who can explain why the practice of poetry has become the object of so much satire and snide dismissal? [link found here thanks] —

  2. — The Poem as Comic Strip #6 —

  3. — For this, my farewell “Poet’s Choice” column, here are two poems related by a form: the sonnet —

  4. — He is the leading New Zealand poet of his generation, but Bill Manhire prefers to “bump into meaning” rather have an agenda —

  5. — How do you capture the tortured life of one of hockey’s greatest goaltenders? Why, you turn it into verse, of course —

  6. — BBC to broadcast lost Philip Larkin poems —

  7. — Classic Review: Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman —

  8. — “Saliva Trails” - Currently the Best Selling Book of Poetry in English, Released from Korea Through Lulu.com —

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Poetry News For February 1, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. — “… the legitimacy/relevance/absurdity of AWP” —

  2. — Although it is less thematically unified than previous books, Rich shows a grasp of language and form here that is still impressive —

  3. — I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse —

  4. — Dear Lord, save Mississippi from the Paul Ott Verses —

  5. — You are invited to submit an acrostic poem for a chapbook-sized edited collection entitled Power Crazy Senior General Than Shwe —

  6. — ‘Poetics Plus’ offers variety of events [Buffalo, NY] —

  7. — Detained poet denied visits and parcels —

  8. — Puck Poet; Grenfell professor’s book based on life of hockey great Terry Sawchuk —

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