Poetry News:
- — Scantily Clad e-chaps —
- — When James Woolley, Smith Professor of English, discovered a lost manuscript of the 18th century Irish satirist Jonathan Swift, he was met with a jaw-dropping surprise: the poet’s first unpublished poem in centuries —
- — “I do not think that more information always makes a richer poem. I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion. . . .” —
- — The Boston Public Library is seeking to fill the Curator of Manuscripts position in its Rare Books and Manuscripts Department —
- — Job: Curator of Poetry in the George Edward Woodberry Poetry Room Harvard —
- — Robert Fagles, Translator of the Classics, Dies at 74 —
- — It’s time her genius was more widely recognised —
- — The poet doubts the redemptive power of her own gift while simultaneously using it to find a tone that — in the final line — wavers perfectly between her contempt for consolation and her desire for it —
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