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Poetry News For October 20, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. — A wooden tablet dating from the latter half of the seventh century, found here in fiscal 2003 among the Ishigami ruins, contains a section of verse from the Manyoshu, Japan’s oldest existing collection of poetry, it’s been learned —

  2. — Washington and Lee University’s R.T. Smith, editor of Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review, has won the 2008 Library of Virginia Poetry Book of the Year prize. —

  3. — Poet Glen Downie has claimed the $15,000 Toronto Book Award for his collection Loyalty Management. —

  4. — Sandburg Home marks 40 years as historic site —

  5. — Poet Invents Eighth Deadly Sin In New Collection —

  6. — Wordplay this week: Lee Ann Brown [MP3] —

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Poetry News for October 24, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. — Psychologists Nathan DeWall of the University of Kentucky and Roy Baumeister of Florida State University ran three experiments to study existential dread in the laboratory —

  2. — Three Reasons Why We Don’t Read Poetry —

  3. — I guess this collection is about the shadowy presences and outlaw characters who haunt the margins of American, particularly Southern, history —

  4. — He is, we are constantly told, a great poet and a big wind-bag, a profound seer and a boisterous humbug —

  5. — Jennifer Grotz once wrote poetry like a drunken Patsy Cline, sick on love —

  6. — Akron poet Thomas Dukes wins prestigious national book prize; and some thoughts on poetry for profit —

There are a lot of sleep / dream articles up at the NY Times. “Once seen as a blank screen, a metaphor for death, it has emerged as an active, purposeful machine, a secretive intelligence that comes out at night to play and to work during periods of dreaming and during the netherworld chasms known as deep sleep”

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