Poetry News:
- — “I wanted to write a series of elegies,” she says. “I wanted the promise of consolation, but consolation never arrives.” —
- — Excerpt: ‘Today: 101 Ghazals’ —
- — Dock Ellis is trying to strike back at a tough foe and another article from the NY Post —
- — Since we started this series of calls for poems by celebrating spring, it seems reasonable to mark the change of season by inviting your summer odes this week —
- — Purdy’s poetry made Canadians re-evaluate their understanding of poetry and their sense of the country and their place in it —
- — Reginald Lockett dies - poet and teacher —
- — A Chicago author kick-starts a new fest —
- — Running a literary journal has always been a bit of a bouquet of barbed wire —
- — Granta asked some highly effective people in literature, journalism and publishing to reveal their web habits —
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