- — Dharma Poetry: WH Auden, a Reflection on Haiti and Human Suffering —
- — 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. —
- — Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and her Family’s Feuds —
- —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 – - — Jazz ensemble merges 18th century poetry with Brazilian rhythms —
- — Spring 2010 Hardcovers: Poetry —
- — 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. —
- — Self-Published Poets · Trouble and Honey by Jilly Dybka —
- — why poetry is bullshit —
- — An introduction to the poetry of William Wordsworth —
- — Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry: Among other Histories —
- — Provincetown Crossing —
- — Bacteria Are More Capable of Complex Decision-Making Than Thought —
- — 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. —
- — 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.” —
- — Shining a Light on a Forgotten Poet —
- — An introduction to the poetry of Robert Burns —
- — The Poetry Show: Rabbie Burns and the work of other Scottish poets [mp3] —
- — New Wordplay V shows on the archive —
- — 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] — - — 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] —
- — 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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