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Poetry News For August 27, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. Claudia Emerson, a professor at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, is Virginia’s new poet laureate
  2. Teaching a Nephew to Type by Rebecca McClanahan
  3. UTC Professor Named Finalist In International Poetry Competition
  4. Ahmed Faraz: poet of love and defiance
  5. The City Has Moved Too Close to the Sun: A Detroit Cento Cut-Up poem
  6. Poetry peepshow staged for literary voyeurs at Toronto arts festival
  7. Air-purifying Church Windows Were Early Nanotechnology: Stained glass windows that are painted with gold purify the air when they are lit up by sunlight, experts have discovered.

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Poetry News for September 27, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. Autobiography of the Cab Driver Who Picked Me Up At a Phoenix Hotel to Catch a Four A.M. Flight and Began to Speak in (Almost) Rhyming Couplets by Rebecca McClanahan
  2. Seven Ingenious Rules
  3. Poetry Prize Sets Off Resignations at Society
  4. How often has some wonderful piece of verse, some rousing sonnet or impassioned soliloquy been reduced to the verbal equivalent of dried biscuit crumbs by overanalysis?
  5. Job: Associate or Advanced Assistant Professor of English (Poetry)
  6. In Columbia College prof Trinidad‘ pop culture”“saturated poetry, the languid Technicolor of mid-20th-century Hollywood appears again and again

I had a dream — it was one of those omnipotent dreams where you see/experience everything at once — that Death sent me $780 via PayPal. So there was Seventh-Seal-looking-Death sitting at the computer, clicking the PayPal button. And there I was, sitting at the computer, pleased that Death PayPal’d me $780.

Death uses Internet Explorer. And doesn’t have a flat screen monitor yet.

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Poetry News for July 23, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. The great poet William Carlos Williams called [her] “one of the major phenomena of history”
  2. Copper Canyon is the leading U.S. independent publisher of poetry
  3. As these four collections show, the field’s “outsider” status lets poets pursue art for its own sake
  4. Too many movies, poems, songs, TV shows deal in the familiar, offering the comfort of the predictable
  5. Rowling has already expressed an interest in covering the classics after her studies in Greek and Roman mythology at Exeter University in the 1980s
  6. Bold words: A poet pushes forward
  7. Home of poet Langston Hughes experiences its own Harlem renaissance
  8. Printers Ball shut down by police [wow, weird. link found here thanks] —
  9. when she evokes an environment, she does not efface herself from it, nor (despite the clarity of her eye) stand apart from it
  10. Poet finds an unsentimental harbor for her love of life

I picked up the new Harry Potter book when it went on sale at midnight and I have to say that was one of the strangest scenes I’ve encountered. 100s and 100s and 100s of kids going berserk over a BOOK going on sale. :)

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Poetry News For February 26, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. Frontlines of poetry war nasty
  2. Appalachian poets come together in new book ‘Coal, A Poetry Anthology’
  3. Montana House rejects compensating poet laureate
  4. After eight books, Rebecca McClanahan hopes that she still has a lot to learn
  5. Ellen Bryant Voigt’s poems take on the world from a fixed rural place
  6. Batista is the first Latin American professional player to publish a book of poetry
  7. Montrealer Torill Kove wins best animated short Oscar for ‘The Danish Poet’

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