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Poetry News For December 4, 2008

Poetry News:

— “I’ll remain calm while reviewing Bernadette Mayer’s new collection of poems, Poetry State Forest (New Directions, 128 pages, $17.95)” —

— In conversation: Tony Hoagland with Kate Daniels from Lannan Podcasts by Lannan Foundation [MP3] —

— The world has been 116 years without Whitman, but a contemporary twin serves as a stand-in for the poet, attending events and visiting schools. —

— KUOW’s Elizabeth Austen talks with poet Marie Howe about what she discovered about her own capacity for violence through writing the poems in her collection “The Kingdom of Ordinary Time.” [MP3] —

— Mr. Finkel was a noted American poet whose work teemed with curious juxtapositions, which in their unorthodoxy helped illuminate the function of poetry itself. —

— Moskva Reads: Famed Bookstore Turns 50 —

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Tags: Bernadette Mayer, Donald Finkel, Kate Daniels, Marie Howe, poet, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Tony Hoagland, Walt Whitman

Poetry News For April 6, 2008

Poetry News:

— A translator from many tongues, she loves a pun, even when mourning a dead pooch —

— Atlanta Sings of Poems Electric, Past and Present —

— What We Miss if We Pass on Poetry (Hint: Not Poems) —

— Langston Hughes, 1902-1967: The Poet Voice of African-Americans —

— Houston poet wins $50,000 award —

— Reed Whittemore, Handyman to the Muse: Influential Poet Writes the Work of His Life —

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Tags: books, creative writing, Heather McHugh, Langston Hughes, literature, Mary Oliver, poet, Poetry, poetry and writing, Poetry News, poets, Reed Whittemore, Tony Hoagland, Writing and poetry

Poetry News for June 28, 2007

Poetry News:

— Ms. Malaika was one of a small group of Iraqi poets who broke away from classical Arab poetry, with its rigid metric and rhyme schemes —

— …the other is a rare first-edition copy of Phillis Wheatley’s “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral” that dates to 1773 —

— Poet Mary Ellen Solt, a founder of the concrete poetry movement, dies at 86 [you have to be a subscriber] —

— The Cabernet of Rent Checks —

— Poet’s work earns him nomination, vacation —

— Borges finds his Boswell —

— I need a PHP coder / developer —

— Out of a Nigerian Slum, a Poet Is Born —

World-wide reading against the regime of Robert Mugabe

well here’s something you don’t read everyday

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Tags: Aj Dagga Tolar, Borges, Mary Ellen Solt, Nazik al Malaika, Tom Satterlee, Tony Hoagland

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