Poetry News:
- — There is little that can make us as acutely conscious of the fact that we are still alive as being shown the body of someone who is dead —
- — Start a Notebook on Poets.org - 30 Ways To Celebrate National Poetry Month —
- — “if anything the poem and video are poking fun at a stereotype of libertarianism” —
- — In recent years, the splendid American poet Elizabeth Bishop has undergone both a canonization and a demystification —
- — Lighght Verse —
- — The poem that saved a terribly English spy from death in Dublin —
- — Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott is one of the great mongrels of American poetry, serving as a singular melting pot for a variety of traditions —
- — Detroit Tiger Haikus —
- — Fewer people may be reading, but everywhere you turn, Americans are sounding their barbaric yawps over the roofs of the world, as good old Walt Whitman, himself a self-published author, once put it —
My brother Jason has posted a bunch of word games / word puzzles on his blog.
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