Poetry News:
- — 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 —
- — 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. —
- — Poet Glen Downie has claimed the $15,000 Toronto Book Award for his collection Loyalty Management. —
- — Sandburg Home marks 40 years as historic site —
- — Poet Invents Eighth Deadly Sin In New Collection —
- — Wordplay this week: Lee Ann Brown [MP3] —
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