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Title: Shakespeare Allowed!
Location: Nashville Public Library Downtown
Link out: Click here
Description: The Merry Wives of Windsor

THE BEST WAY TO READ SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS IS OUT LOUD AND WITH FRIENDS!

The Nashville Shakespeare Festival invites you to read every play Shakespeare wrote, out loud in a reading circle.
Start Time: 1pm
Date: 2009-12-12
End Time: 4pm

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Title: Shakespeare Allowed!
Location: Nashville Public Library Downtown
Link out: Click here
Description: The Merchant of Venice

THE BEST WAY TO READ SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS IS OUT LOUD AND WITH FRIENDS!

The Nashville Shakespeare Festival invites you to read every play Shakespeare wrote, out loud in a reading circle.
Start Time: 1pm
Date: 2009-11-14
End Time: 16:00

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Autoposted from the Nashville Poetry Calendar

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• — On British and American Poetry. —
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• — Did Shakespeare Write This? Computer Says Yes —
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• — Like Humans, Monkeys Fall Into The ‘Uncanny Valley’ —
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• — Bisexual poet H.D.’s paragon lesbian relationship survived WWII —
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• — Why We Need Small Presses —
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• — Juliana Spahr is the recipient of the 19th annual OB Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington —
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• — Erotic Poet Cavafy’s Trace Fades in Egypt’s Mythic Alexandria —
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• — Where Brathwaite’s text play functions in capturing dialect and inflection, Siegell’s layouts, as he puts it, are a matter of form and function. It just makes sense. —
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• — I’ve always suspected that Devin Johnston must be one of those poets whom readers either love or hate. —
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• — A world disturbed … —
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Title: Shakespeare Allowed!
Location: Nashville Public Library Downtown
Link out: Click here
Description: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

THE BEST WAY TO READ SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS IS OUT LOUD AND WITH FRIENDS!

The Nashville Shakespeare Festival invites you to read every play Shakespeare wrote, out loud in a reading circle.
Start Time: 13:00
Date: 2009-10-03
End Time: 16:00

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Autoposted from the Nashville Poetry Calendar

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• — SPOON RIVER POET CALLED GREAT; Famous English Critic Lifts Edgar Lee Masters from Chicago Obscurity to the High Peak of Parnassus. SPOON RIVER POET CALLED GREAT April 4, 1915, Sunday —
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• — Jee Leong Koh is the author of two books of poems, Payday Loans and Equal to the Earth (Bench Press). His poetry has appeared in Best New Poets and Best Gay Poetry, and in PN Review, as well as other journals. —
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• — 12 or 20 questions: with Charles Bernstein —
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• — Weekly Poem: ‘Living Room’ from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS Andrea Hollander Budy [mp3] —
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• — Why are all the best poems sad? —
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• — Words in pictures: the text big thing —
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• — Curious about the relationship of submissions to acceptances, I have examined the results and discovered that a little more than three-fourths of the works appearing in the most recent issues of VPR were submitted electronically, indicating there is no subconscious editorial bias toward either form of submission. —
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• — A sarcophagus in an English parish church could solve the centuries-old literary debate over who really wrote the plays of William Shakespeare. —
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• — Oprah’s $1 trillion lawsuit dismissed —
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• — The Web has been a great platform for writers, especially for those who do it for all the wrong reasons. —
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• — Trailing the Dark Lady of the Sonnets; Dark Lady of the Sonnets March 20, 1921, Sunday —
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• — Elegant Thorn Review – ETR seeks to present spiritually conscious poetry, short fiction, and photography —
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• — Playing Moneyball with Poetry —
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• — What is the profile of the average poetry book buyer?” —
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• — Poetry of David Wagoner – Whistling… from WFIU: The Poets Weave Podcast [mp3] —
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• — I am not mentioning his name on purpose —
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• — Alexander Pope’s “Epistle” and the art of making poetry from normal, banal, petty life. —
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• — poetry social networking —
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• — Seattle translators Carolyne Wright, Robert McNamara and the late Ron Scollon bring local readers poetry from India and tales from the far north of Canada in this week’s roundup of books with Northwest connections. —
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• — THE MOE GREEN POETRY DISCUSSION hosted By Rafael F J ALVARADO – Aug 02,2009 Join Rafael as he talks to Andrea Scarpino – Andrea Scarpino is the author of the chapbook The Grove Behind (Finishing Line Press). [mp3] —
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• — chicago poetry calendar —
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• — Summertime Poetry Picks —
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• — Tony Hoagland on Dean Young —
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• — Iran’s National Poet Speaks Out —
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• — Four Virginia poets — two well-known, two not so, offer anthologies that make summer a time to savor the poetic as well as lighter reading. —
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• — Darth times indeed: The Give Dick Cheney’s Memoir A Title contest —
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• — bill moyers’ in-depth interview with w.s.merwin —
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• — Four Ears: the Curse of the Metrical Code —
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• — ron slate on stacie cassarino —
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• — The Waste Land, according to Ezra Pound, is “the longest poem in the English langwidge”. As his spelling suggests, he was not being entirely serious. —
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• — “Those good folks, The Joiners, are offering up their latest song as a free download this weekend. Hurry and listen to their wonderful “Tennessee.” It’s really, really good.” —
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• — How David Trinidad’s collection of vintage dolls plays into his poetry. [mp3] —
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• — PICTURES: Hand Stencils Through Time —
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• — “fire” – lou pinella as bukowski poem —
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• — Spanish Poet Victoriano Cremer Dies at 102 —
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• — New tartan commemorates Burns’s 250th anniversary —
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• — Arty Party Food —
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• — no wonder print media is “dying” —
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• — Psychjourney Podcast & “Invisible Sisters.” —
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• — “Never Land” Yusef Kumunyakaa —
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• — Kate Tufts Discovery Award-winner Matthew Dickman writes emotional and accessible poetry… [mp3] —
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• — A recent search through the vast holdings of the Vrzhu Research Bureau archives uncovered the draft of a previously unknown poem by John Keats. —
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• — Weird book of the week: Poems About Horses —
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• — Book Review: The Bloodless Stigmata by Dee Kite —
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• — An array of poems printed on heavy stock hang above elegantly carved wooden Japanese-style prayer sticks —
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• — Best documentary award was taken by Aliona Van der Horst of The Netherlands with a lament for cult Russian poet Boris Ryzhy, who committed suicide in 2001 —
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• — Gordon Brown turns to former poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion for advice —
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• — It was not unitl later, when I was readling through Tupelo Press’s free downloadable Reader’s Companion [PDF] for Calendars that I realized the poem is written in dactylic tetrameter. The dactyl is one of the most scorned metric feet in English prosody. —
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• — “He probably wrote some poems for some of you bimbos out there…” —
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• — On this edition of The Poets Weave, Jenny Kander reads poems by Maxine Kumin from the book Say This of Horses: a collection of poems, edited by C.E. Greer and Jenny Kander. —
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• — Back to the Futurists: Italy’s First Avant-Garde Turns 100 —
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I felt bloggy for this post of Poetry Hut Blog. Lotsa good links out there.

I think I linked to this cartoon a long time ago, but I’m easily amused:



I like Shakespeare’s cartoon-panel-exasperation-sweat-drops in that last panel. Have a nice Monday.

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• — While there are many female poets in Korea, her lyrical poems from a woman’s perspective on life and things show boldness and beauty, and have made her a favorite of Korean poetry lovers —
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• — Cirque founder will take poetry into orbit —
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• — Malla, Dodds take home Trillium Book Awards —
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• — Ask a Poet —
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• — Catherine Carter, an assistant professor of English at Western Carolina University, has won the 2009 Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition, —
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• — Poem of the week: The Parable of the Old Man and the Young, by Wilfred Owen —
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• — Poem of the week: From A Midsummer Night’s Dream —
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• — Exclusive: Patti Smith interview —
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• — Obama Picks G.O.P. Ex-Congressman to Lead National Endowment for the Humanities —
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• — The 13th annual Mainichi Haiku Contest is now open! For information on the contest and how to apply, please click here. —
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• — Happy the poet whose life and work remain so well-remembered that his name becomes an adjective. —
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• — ‘Poets for Palestine’ negotiates an imagined better future, harsh reality —
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• — Based on the turbulent life of the celebrated Russian poet, The Ships Pass Quietly was originally produced at The Blue Room to acclaim with Vivienne Glance as Akhmatova. —
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• — Spirit bear captured on camera —
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• — Juan Felipe Herrera’s “Half of the World in Light” collection wins the International Latino Book Award. —
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• — The new poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, has chosen to attack politicians in her first composition in the post —
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• — Poets reveal the strangest places they’ve ‘done it’ —
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• — Nonfiction/Poetry Reviews: Publishers Weekly, 6/15/2009 —
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• — Women of the futurists —
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• — Paul Muldoon reads and discusses his own work. [mp3] —
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• — Happy Birthday, Gwendolyn Brooks! —
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• — Higher-ed pinching pushes college presses to brink —
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• — Happy Birthday, William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet and Dramatist —
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My brother is looking for someone to translate a passage in Dutch – helpful if you know some trigonometry. $.

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• — The Sonnets at 400 and also Did Shakespeare Want To Suppress His Sonnets? —
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• — Poet’s Choice: ‘Turning’ By Janice Harrington —
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• — We Got a Yeats, You Got a Wallace Stevens —
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• — Dharma Poetry: Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche —
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• — Monkeys playing a game similar to “Let’s Make A Deal” have revealed that their brains register missed opportunities and learn from their mistakes. —
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• — Sadly, the mythology of poet Bob Kaufman almost rivals all we have left of his poetry. —
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• — a nervy and rich collection of poems in the voices of women both infamous (Moors murderer Myra Hindley and fascist moll Unity Mitford) and writerly (Carson McCullers, Zelda Fitzgerald, Jane Bowles) —
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• — Her latest collection of poetry proves Frieda Hughes to be a writer capable of standing on her own —
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• — And then there’s the triumph of free verse, which to many people turns poetry into largely banal or incoherent stream of consciousness prose —
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• — Naughty Classical Chinese Poetry, And What It Means Today —
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• — From Page to Pixels: The Evolution of Online Journals —
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• — Boyd argues that art, including fiction, is a unique human adaptation whose chief function is “for improving human cognition, cooperation and creativity” —
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• — Diane di Prima — a beat poet, prose writer, playwright, teacher and Excelsior resident — has been named San Francisco’s fifth poet laureate —
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• — Yoko Ono to judge Twitter haiku competition —
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• — Nashville Shakespeare Festival invites audience to jury duty —
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• — Pet Haiku Contest: my top 26 picks (so far) —
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• — Pa. poet wins undergraduate literary prize —
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• — Pinoy poet to receive Italy’s top prize —
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• — The Verse Revolutionaries: Ezra Pound, HD and the Imagists —
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• — ‘YouTube’ for books signs up Random House, Simon & Schuster —
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• — Dahlia Ravikovitch, one of Israel’s major poets, played a formative role in both the poetic culture of the state and the undoing of the male dominance in Israeli poetry and culture. —
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• — Daring poet mortified by blasphemy case —
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• — Are litmags facing more funding cuts? —
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Here is another Ebay scan. New Poetry 1964. [20mb PDF] If there are any copyright objections I’ll take it down.

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• — I’d be happy if the new laureate blew all her money on the horses or invested in fetish gear —
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• — The Connecticut Review, a literary journal published twice a year by the state university system, is dedicating its next issue to veterans’ writing, according to Lisa Siedlarz, one of its editors. —
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• — Why You Are Probably Not an Independent Author (or, Another Post for Which I Expect I Will Get Some Flack) —
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• — Wordfest was still underway, and I had to record the 3:00 o’clock reading at Malaprops, so last Sunday I replayed a show featuring Wordfest director Laura Hope-Gill. [mp3] —
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• — Fifty years is an astoundingly long lifetime for a literary magazine, and what this book shows is that early on SPR was publishing emerging writers who would go on to become well known. —
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• — Our second installment of the Spring 2009 Online Edition is now ready for reading! Featuring an interview with David Hoenigman; features on Jack Smith and Emma Bee Bernstein; and reviews of books by Rainer Maria Rilke, Amélie Nothomb, Andrew Schelling, Edmund White, and more! —
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• — Wikipedia hoax shames major publishers —
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• — When Elizabeth Alexander presented Barack Obama’s inaugural poem, few of us had considered that in the history of the United States there had been only three previous inaugural poets… [mp3] —
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• — A Cantata Inspired by Mystics and Poets —
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• — DesRuisseaux Named Next Parliamentary Poet Laureate —
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• — Bloomington poet Anne Haines reads a selection of her recent work. Haines is a member of Five Women Poets and Source: Women Writers.? Her first chapbook, Breach, is now available, published by Finishing Line Press. [mp3] —
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• — New Letters magazine receives three national awards —
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• — “Florence” by Barbara Adler — a powerful videopoem on illiteracy. —
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• — Each poem embeds a poet into life’s everyday urgencies, because the world must have poetry to survive. Without it, “ours would be a history of chronic needs.” —
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• — Moxley knows all about political poetry. She was asked to be the poetry editor of the political and cultural criticism magazine The Baffler by its founder and editor Thomas Frank, who is best known for writing What’s the Matter with Kansas? The book persuasively argued that voters, swayed by the intangible forces of the culture wars, vote against their own economic interests. —
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• — I wonder how many big book award winning books will be around that long. Do we care? —
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• — Poem Inspires U.S. Sculptor To Honor Quake Victims —
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• — Poet-moms are held to a higher standard. Expected to perform superhero feats minus the superhero status. —
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• — Dylan and McCartney don’t mix —
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• — The iambic pentameter is five heartbeats, to be exact: “A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!” – with “Horse, horse, king, for, horse” being the strong beats —
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• — Krysl often experiments with sestinas, a form that braids six repeating words into six six-lined stanzas, ending with a three-lined stanza, a grand finale. —
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• — the case for non-poetry-writing poetry reviewers (cont’d) —
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• — “Paradise Lost” movies face off in Hollywood —
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• — A street vendor sells photographs of Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore on a pavement in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata May 9, 2009. —
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• — Maria Miranda Maloney is Managing Editor of Mezcla, a bilingual anthology dedicated to publishing poetry, fiction, and art. Maria was born in El Paso, Texas. “To be born in El Paso,” she says, “is to be born a poet, living at the seams of two worlds.” [mp3] —
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• — The Quickening Maze, Adam Foulds’s account of the madness of the poet John Clare is itself poetic, says Neel Mukherjee —
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• — On Poetry: First thought, full bloom —
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• — THE race to win poetry’s most prestigious academic post has turned dirty after Oxford academics were anonymously sent a lurid dossier accusing Derek Walcott, the frontrunner and Nobel laureate, of being a sex pest. and It is a scandal which has rocked the normally sedate world of poetry. —
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• — The effect of the poem “Lighthouse” by Jane Hirshfield is to create in the reader a sophisticated sense of friendship toward humanity —
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• — One more to tide you over —
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These PenAgain ergonomic pens are great. I just started using one. If you have finger pain, joint pain, arthritis etc you might want to try one. Or if you are such a prolific poet that you get writer’s cramp haha.

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• — The Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens caused a furor in the world of Shakespeare scholarship over the weekend —
• — Frederick Seidel reads poems from his collected works. [audio] —
• — Edgar Allan Poe and the economy of horror. —
• — How a local poet publishes, from zines to the Internet —
• — Power Of Imagination Is More Than Just A Metaphor —
• — Judith Krug, Who Fought Ban on Books, Dies at 69 —
• — PEN condemns publication of Karadzic poems —
• — Effortless Clotted Cream —
• — Slash Pine Press is pleased to announce our first call for chapbook-length manuscripts of poetry or mixed-genre. —
• — Photo from garfield minus garfield —
• — And the Winner Is… Anonymous —
• — Poetry slam is Friday at Tennessee State University —
• — Finishing Line Press is going to publish my chapbook, Love and Other Four-Letter Words —
• — Good Poems for Hard Times is a top seller nationally, and with good reason —
• — NPR: 04-21-2009 Fresh Air: 1) W. S. Merwin: The ‘Sirius’ Side Of Poetry 2) Neil Young Faces A ‘Fork In The Road’ 3) J.G. Ballard And ‘The Psychology Of The Future’ 4) Gordon Ramsay: Television’s Gourmet Guru [mp3] —
• — Poet Linda Gregg wins $50,000 prize —
• — Ballard proves you should live a bit before writing —
• — Arielle Greenberg —
• — Review: Trouble And Honey by Jilly Dybka [pdf] thanks Main Street Rag and Heather Collings. —
• — and Collin Kelley had a review in that issue as well —
• — So you think you might have Ehlers-Danlos synrome? [PDF] —
• — A new look at Thoreau: from nature preacher to wisecracking, entrepreneurial party boy. —
• — For poet Brenda Hillman, it’s all about the mystery —
• — Murfreesboro residents who might have lost valuable items in the recent tornadoes can go to the local library to see if they have been recovered. and also Over the past decade, Tennessee ranks 1st in the U.S. in tornado fatalities. —
• — On Language: Baseball Lingo —
• — Troubled R ‘n’ B star Amy Winehouse is writing a book of poems. —
• — Viking Legacy On English: What Language Tells Us About Immigration And Integration —
• — The 2009 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday. Author Annette Gordon-Reed won the history prize for “The Hemingses of Monticello” and poet W.S. Merwin was honored for “The Shadow of Sirius.” Watch NewsHour conversations with Gordon-Reed and Merwin here. —
• — print vs online —
• — Laughter Remains Good Medicine —
• — Book Returned to Washington and Lee Library Only 52,858 Days Late —
• — Bloodaxe Editor Neil Astley advises what to do once you’ve finished your poem(s) —
• — Here are the 10 most common titles of submissions they’ve received in the past two years —
• — Why do some poems play it cool and simple while others are all timpany and cacaphony? —
• — Don’t Like Poetry? Too Bad. You’re Reading It Anyway. —
• — Project Censored Top 25 Censored Stories For 2009 —
• — Futurist covers: full audio from Charles Bernstein Web Log with Thomas Sayers Ellis, Joshua Mehigan, Alicia Stallings, & Charles Bernstein —
• — Female Birds ‘Jam’ Their Mates’ Flirtatious Songs —
• — Tate recreates Blake’s ‘wretched’ solo show —
• — why couldn’t u just have kids? —
• — speaking of the above, my friend Jessica’s essay in Newsweek —
• — and review of her book —
• — Poets.org has partnered with TextTelevision to offer TextFlows, an alternative approach to reading and experiencing poetry. —
• — Get well wishes to Brent Goodman —
• — Plath as a Major Poet by Annie Finch —

We have a surprise house guest coming for a month. Tomorrow. Just found out about it haha. Let me tell you, only a good friend can get away with that haha. Have a safe flight across the pond Mr Vyv.

• — The poems in Catherine Bowman’s new poetry collection The Plath Cabinet (Four Way Books, 2009) are inspired by Sylvia Plath. —
• — The word most frequently used to describe Frank Bidart’s poetry is “intense.” [mp3 part 1] —
• — For Frank Bidart, the act of reading poetry aloud involves the entire body… [mp3 part 2] —
• — How restorers ruined the last portrait of Shakespeare —
• — The tangibility of this work, versus the prospect of “cuddling with your computer,” and the relative permanence of print versus online work is the intimacy and immediacy that Subraman valued in her return to chapbooks. —
• — The cool wit of Elinor Morton Wylie’s work has been unfairly eclipsed —
• — John Ashbery: ‘Look, Gesture, Hearsay’ from The New York Review of Books —
• — Authors fight free books site Scribd for ‘pirating’ their work —
• — Reading is the best way to relax and even six minutes can be enough to reduce the stress levels by more than two thirds, according to new research. —

• — If you want to participate, you need do nothing more than write up that one poem a day during the month of April. —
• — Lot #18: Elvis Presley Handwritten and Initialed Poem —
• — This month’s classic poem narrates an adulterous nighttime adventure that doesn’t work out as planned. —
• — Louise Glück’s sixth pick as judge of the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is a debut both whimsical and dark —
• — Now, from Philadelphia comes a modern day Mallarmé in the post-avant emissions of Frank Sherlock who is “telling the future from memory.” —
• — An academic claims to have discovered six previously unrecognised works by William Shakespeare. —
• — It was first reported in July that the increasingly bookish James Franco would star in a biopic of acclaimed poet Allen Ginsberg and now we’ve got our first look at the actor as a pre-bald and fat Ginsberg —
• — As the generational divide between metrical poetic tradition and free verse tradition has widened, the task of hearing free verse in the right brain has grown more daunting. —
• — Perhaps there are no tired words or tired phrases, only tired poets, poets who don’t have the energy to pinch a cliché’s nose and breathe some life into it, who don’t have the breath to give in the first place, the courage to confront an apparent dead-end and stride into it. —