Poetry News:
- — In her poems she dealt with the themes that moved her contemporaries - nationalism, social and feminist issues, honour killings and alienation —
- — Our poet and her drinking companion(s) lift drunken glasses to salute the adventurous relative —
- — The government Monday said it banned the pro-reform daily Shargh (”East”) because on Saturday it published an interview with an expatriate poet who has written about homosexuality —
- — In 1924 Rudyard Kipling, better known for The Jungle Book, wrote a poem titled “Jane’s Marriage” that imagines Austen’s ascension to heaven —
- — Thomas Lynch and Dennis O’Driscoll from Lannan Podcasts by Lannan Foundation [link goes to webpage not MP3] —
Ron Slate, one of those poets-with-a-non-academic-day-job, now has a blog. 
More here, too.
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I got a nice email from someone who hung out with Dock Ellis for a couple days and this person asked Dock if he had read the poem I wrote about him. He hadn’t (go figure hahaha) and … “I just wanted to let you know that I personally read your poem to Dock Ellis, and he LOVED it!” He read it 3 or 4 times.
That is so f-ing awesome. 
Yay for poems on the internet.
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