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Poetry News:

1. — Knox is at her best in poems that demonstrate an understanding of poetry —
2. — More on the Frost “poetry punishment at the Poetry Foundation’s blog, Harriet —
3. — John Ashbery’s Notes From the Air: Selected Later Poems and Robin Blaser’s The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser are the International and Canadian winners of the eighth annual Griffin Poetry Prize —
4. — Is there an American poet more unique and incapable of characterization than James Tate? —
5. — Putting Your Poetry in Order —
6. — An extraordinary poet examines ordinary subjects —
7. — In the introduction to ‘The Best American Erotic Poems from 1800 to the Present’ (Scribner, $30), the poet and critic David Lehman points to what he sees as a “vital American tradition of erotic poetry” —
8. — Hollins University will receive a $5 million gift to establish what will be known as the Jackson Center for Creative Writing —
9. — Exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen finds refuge in Sweden —
10. — An athlete in the extreme sport of poetry —

Poetry News:

1. — Vandals Forced to Study Poetry of Frost & CNN, WSJ —
2. — Jason’s poem “One Day I Will Die” enjoins us to hug each instant hard enough to forge a diamond from the coal —
3. — So why does poetry matter? —
4. — Remembering Joseph Brodsky —
5. — Poetry boxing helps Japanese get ready to grumble —
6. — He believed that bad writing destroyed civilizations and that good writing could save them, and although he was an élitist about what counted as art and who mattered as an artist, he thought that literature could enhance the appreciation of life for everyone —
7. — Czechoslovakia is the setting for Poem of the End, which re-lives the last phases of Marina Tsvetaeva’s most intense love affair —
8. — What happens to creativity and imagination as we get older? —
9. — Dearborn Suite by Philip Levine Another Michigan poem —
10. — Detroit, 1972, by Jim Daniels And another Michigan poem —
11. — Making a Lyrical Return to the Sunken Garden —

Poetry News:

1. — Instead of starting with a blank page, poet Austin Kleon grabs the New York Times and a permanent marker — and eliminates the words he doesn’t need —
2. — On an unconscious level, this final replication exceeds the early rhyme but also thwarts it when the two sounds become identical (as the mother and daughter must not) —
3. — The idea that science and poetry are mutually exclusive realms is a widespread misconception. Please prove it wrong here. —
4. — In A Birthday, from her first collection, Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862), the sensuous aesthete is in the ascendant —
5. — What, if anything, is Arab American poetry? —
6. — “It would seem soft for instance to look in my life for the sentiments in ‘The Death of the Hired Man.’ There’s nothing to it believe me.” —
7. — Nevertheless, she apparently did and wrote the poem the “Mother’s Day Proclamation” as a call for a Mother’s Day for Peace to be established in the United States. —

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Poetry News:

1. — The Poetry Center’s American Poetry Archives is one of the most extensive literary collections in the U.S., home to approximately 3,000 original recordings captured at the Poetry Center’s live poetry reading series —
2. — Man gets suspended term, Frost homework in vandalism case —
3. — He and his wife, Tibetan poet and essayist Tsering Woeser, have been under house arrest in Beijing since the protests began —
4. — Ó Searcaigh in ‘an abyss’ after documentary —
5. — As for the first example, yes, a poem is marketing material to drive awareness of a poet —
6. — Backwards City Review is going out of business & Poetry magazine is now accepting electronic subs. —
7. — Nominations To Begin For 2008 Poet Laureate of The Blogosphere cast your vote —

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Poetry News:

1. — Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has arrived in Europe to begin a new life, reports say, after protests by Muslim groups forced her into hiding in India. —
2. — The Polish Immigrant, by Peter Skrzynecki —
3. — Despite T.S. Eliot’s doubts that the traditional sonnet could figure importantly in modern poetry, it thrives to this day —
4. — The Austin Peay State University Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts will host a reading by poet and translator Francisco Aragon —
5. — Dylan daughter on US poetry tour —
6. — A surprise for some will be a little known but incredibly talented poet named Charlotte Smith —
7. — In a fog of megalomania, Robert Frost undertook a grueling trek to Russia to negotiate with Nikita Khrushchev —
8. — Split This Rock’s Army of Poets Marches Into Town and Raises the Anti —
9. — For a while, Wright’s phone message was, “At the sound of the gunshot, leave a message,” which effectively terrified the casual caller into hanging up. —

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Poetry News:

1. — Soon, she was weaving together poems about the employees’ experiences in America and at work at the factory —
2. — In the meantime, his poetry is massively overrated: rhymes are amateur, scansion is sloppy and the content is unintelligible, bordering on insane —
3. — Armed with magnifying glasses and mirrors, the censors are on a mission to root out hidden political messages in poems, novels, stories and advertisements —
4. — Robert Frost, shown above circa 1915, wrote to his son that “you can say a lot in prose that verse won’t let you say.” —
5. — Toledo helped shine light on gifted black poet —
6. — “To me, this is the Grammy of poetry” —
7. — College Restores Artwork by Poet E.E. Cummings —
8. — the day Wallace Stevens punched out Ernest Hemingway —
9. — Because language isn’t simple and poetry isn’t simply language, translation is never a zero-sum game —
10. — Robert has good news, congrats —
11. — Massive gathering celebrates Stegner as bard of the West —
12. — Free online barcode generator for DIYers —
13. — Edward Limonov, a poet-turned-populist, has joined the chess master Garry Kasparov to form a threadbare alliance that constitutes the only genuine opposition to President Vladimir Putin —

Poetry News:

1. — New Pages’ Lit Mag Reviews are Fresh —
2. — Loss of poet Salinas is loss to literature —
3. — Nick Drake’s From the Word Go meditates upon a single word —
4. — Robert Frost, Unplugged, Praised Rich Capitalist Fools, AP Says —
5. — The polls are open in the annual balloting for the Diagram Prize, honoring the world’s oddest book title —
6. — Celebrate the first national Poem In Your Pocket Day! —
7. — Podcast: A poem from A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti [links to HTML page with audio available] —
8. — Fearon fiercely succinct; Shockley’s poems sing —
9. — Podcast: Anna Beer on John Milton [links to HTML page with audio available] —
10. — A series of cultural events this year will commemorate one of Poland’s greatest poets —
11. — Dr. Joachim Sartorius is renowned as a poet and translator of works by the likes of Malcolm Lowry, Robert Gray and John Ashbery [links to HTML page with audio available] —

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