- — The Urdd Eisteddfod, Wales’ largest youth festival, has failed to award the main poetry prize for the first time in 25 years. —
- — “Part of a poet’s job, I think, is to be receptive, and that isn’t something you can or should turn off.” —
- — Another Damn Fine Wordsalad Show! —
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- — Things have been a bit hectic around here what with the Bee-In and all, but we have finally made a decision in our Poem-In-Which-Every-Word-Is-Spelled-Wrong Bee. —
- — Love poetry is hardest to write, says new poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy —
- — Already Poor, Poets Don’t Much Mind The Recession —
- — Eva Touster, a poet and emerita professor of English at Peabody College, died May 26, 2009, at St. Thomas Hospital at the age of 94. —
- — Science v Art: Nobel Prize winners take on the big question
— - — Poetry plasters New Zealand and Nashville —
- — Funding cuts threaten Louisiana State University Press, the Southern Review, and the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities —
- — Maine gallery to auction off two Emerson works —
- — As you’ve probably heard, PLR is no longer in print. However, we will contine to run online issues, beginning with the Health & Illness issue that is slated to go live on June 1 —
Poetry News For May 29, 2009
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