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Poetry News For May 23, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. Can you write your own animal verse?
  2. Hay festival: The show starts here
  3. She was a founding director of Lakewood Prep, a founding editor of Barrow Street poetry journal, and author of four books of poetry.
  4. The view from Palestine is explored this week with a look at Samih al-Qasim’s haunting lament for a ‘Village called Sireen’
  5. Does poetry need a little more debauchery in it?
  6. Grad earns top award for poetry dissertation
  7. Who killed the literary critic?
  8. Then and Now looks back to Daiches’s article on American poetry from the TLS of November 6 1959.
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Poetry News for July 15, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. For this trio, vive la différence!
  2. Yeats’s inspirations ranged from folklore to fascism
  3. Minnesota to get state poet laureate
  4. The fringe presses with a small margin for success
  5. One pleasure of art comes from how accurately it can convey ambivalence
  6. Baseball’s troubadour poet laureate
  7. Les Murray’s world subtly radiates holiness in whimsical poems
  8. Fiona Sampson’s exactitude and command of inner space in Common Prayer impress Adam Thorpe

Deep down, I can’t help but think if we gave the kids in the Middle East 1,000s of electric guitars and amps and drumkits and rock and roll records, everything would turn out O.K.

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Emily Dickinson:

Bees are Black, with Gilt Surcingles
Buccaneers of Buzz.
Ride abroad in ostentation
and subsist on Fuzz.

Fuzz ordained — not Fuzz contingent —
Marrows of the Hill.
Jugs — a Universe’s fracture
Could not jar or spill.

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