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Poetry News for October 20, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. — Charles Nicholl pieces together the untold story of a Jacobean court case and asks what it reveals about the ordinary life of ‘a certain Mr Shakespeare’ —

  2. — Free Verse Hampers Poets and Is Undemocratic; Josephine Preston Peabody Says That, Nevertheless, the War Is Making Poetry Less Exclusive and the Imagiste Cult Will Be Swept Away —

  3. — If I’ve succeeded at writing an effective persona poem, I am not quite the same person I was at the outset —

  4. — The Baghdad Blues is his latest homage to the country’s traumatized capital, though this discomfiting collection of poems is much less political than the film —

  5. — A treasure trove of poet’s voices —

  6. — Fellowship Of Southern Writers Elects First Board —

…off to look up “Jacobean” LOL.

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Poetry News for September 14, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. — The [Washington] state Arts Commission is taking applications for the job of poet laureate —

  2. — An ex-soldier’s take on recent war poetry —

  3. — in giving MacNolia a voice, the poet, A. Van Jordan, deals with the subject of balancing our love —

  4. — The poems aren’t irreverent ““ they don’t mock the grave or its tenant ““ but some of them do seem, well, a touch indiscreet —

  5. — we are less willing to be repulsive and repugnant in our poems, so caught up in our quest for linguistic and emotional beauty and earnestness —

  6. — Student safety, creative rights clash [and Bob Hicok's poem about VA Tech] —

  7. — Wilkes receives approval for MFA in creative writing —

  8. — Almost single-handedly, as poet, editor and propagandist, he had engineered a “Scots Renaissance” in literature —

hahahahahahahaha — this is great. (and WTF?)

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