Poetry News:
- — Taking stock of the wood —
- — Wordplay features Philadelphia-based poet Ross Gay [links to MP3] —
- — This week’s poem is the delicate and flirtatious 16th-century French “Villanelle”, along with a brand new translation —
- — Jonathan Thirkield has been selected as the recipient of the 2008 Walt Whitman Award for his first book-length collection of poems, The Waker’s Corridor, chosen by poet Linda Bierds from over 1,000 entries —
- — Have blogs been good for books? —
- — Folk singer/activist Utah Phillips ’has caught the westbound’ —
- — Interestingly, though, the omnipresence of words in artworks is a relatively recent phenomenon. —
- — When she discovered that the feminist poet Adrienne Rich lived up the road, she asked her for a job and helped to work on Sinister Wisdom, a lesbian literary journal —
- — Amy Winehouse lyrics analysed as poetry by Cambridge University students —
I have to take a break again - my body is kind of rebelling right now. This is gross - my joints are really cracking/popping. I’m like a sheet of bubble wrap! It’ll get sorted out.
I think this is my first review. Thanks Justin. And I think this is my second review - thanks Mary.
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