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Poetry News For April 20, 2008 part 2

Poetry News:

  1. I think that you have to go on your nerve—that’s something Frank O’Hara used to say
  2. Most critics thought the young Barker a better poet than the young Thomas, and the latter, who called his rival’s poems “masturbatory monologues”, seems to have been madly jealous
  3. Definition of poetry splits the literati
  4. The Victorian poet William Barnes proposed wheelsaddle as an alternative to bicycle, and in the same vein suggested painlore, folkwain and nipperlings in lieu of pathology, omnibus and forceps
  5. Collected here are poems from 59 countries and territories spanning Asia and the widest definition of the Asian diaspora
  6. Blake Morrison celebrates livres d’artistes, texts have been cut open, painted over, burnt and locked up by the likes of Matisse and Hirst
  7. Q&A with California Poet Laureate Al Young
  8. WILD NIGHTS! Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway

Important net neutrality developments.

My 6 word story - thanks Thierry Brunet.

…catching up.

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Poetry News For December 2, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. Spent 22 Years Collecting 15,000 Similes; Frank J. Wilstach’s Ardent and Relentless Hunt for This Elusive Figure of Speech Results in a Remarkable Collection - By Joyce Kilmer [book is at Google books] —
  2. The Totality of Causes: Li-Young Lee and Tina Chang in Conversation
  3. “Jennifer L. Knox is pure magic.”
  4. West Point Professor Seeks Paths to a ‘Soldier’s Heart’ [links to MP3] and more here at Ron Slate’s blog —
  5. Poet Confidential: I WAS A GREETING CARD WRITER
  6. A new collection from America’s most playful poet
  7. It is one of the more delicious workings of karma that Singapore, which criminalizes homosexuality, should have as its leading young poet an openly gay man
  8. Interview with wordsmith Gary Snyder
  9. But The Stray Dog Cabaret is as compelling for the poems included as for its back story, which tells us a great deal about Russian society and literature in the period preceding the revolution
  10. A.Van Jordan writes books of poetry that approach a subject the way a filmmaker or nonfiction writer might

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