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Poetry News:

1. — Sharon Olds: ‘I’ve tried to make sense of my life … make a small embodiment of ordinary life, from a daughter’s, wife’s, mother’s point of view’ —
2. — From terror to relief, humour to grief, death may be a black subject, but is one of the richest seams of inspiration to poets, and you simply can’t avoid it… —
3. — Traveling Poetry Hut —
4. — Tibet’s most famous woman blogger, Woeser, detained by police —
5. — Decatur Book Fest: Billy Collins is a sellout —
6. — There are certain notions about poetry that must apparently always automatically spring to mind. I’ve decided to start a list of them here. —
7. — Cheap & ridiculous poetry messages hurting fans —
8. — Jane Crown’s poetry radio invites poets,novelists and small press publishers to interview on their craft —

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One of the editors of Cider Press — Robert Wynne — has responded to (what appears to be) unethical behavior regarding their Cider Press Review Book Award. And Stacey Lynn Brown’s rebuttal. (I’ve read that Pavement Saw Press’ contest has been problematic. And did you know that there was no winner chosen this year for the Cave Canem Poetry Prize?)

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Every year, there are thousands upon thousands of poets contributing money into contests. In many cases each poet is spending hundreds and sometimes over a thousand dollars a year doing this. If we do a very conservative estimate that there are 4000 poets a year spending $250 (that would be roughly 5-6 contests and doesn’t include postage) a year — that’s a million dollars into this contest system.

— read the rest and take the Take the “Are Poetry Contests Killing Your Soul?” Quiz

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Game Show Vs. Riefenstahl. There are better (?) pictures:

Come On Down! — XXXOOO Love, Leni.

ps. Looking at the DNC pics also makes me hear rows of slot machines in my head. There needs to be a Harley in the background, rotating slowly on a turntable platform, surrounded by a bank of slot machines.

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Poetry News:

1. — The day Thoreau died —
2. — Sexually explicit poetry forces educator out —
3. — Dylan’s mystery girl tells it like it was —
4. — Poetry readers tend to lead active lives, listen to music, read a lot, use the Internet and volunteer at significantly higher rates than non-poetry readers, according to a study looking at U.S. involvement with poetry —
5. — A Lone Tibetan Voice, Intent on Speaking Out —
6. — Regarding the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize —

Poetry News:

1. — The Poetry Center’s American Poetry Archives is one of the most extensive literary collections in the U.S., home to approximately 3,000 original recordings captured at the Poetry Center’s live poetry reading series —
2. — Man gets suspended term, Frost homework in vandalism case —
3. — He and his wife, Tibetan poet and essayist Tsering Woeser, have been under house arrest in Beijing since the protests began —
4. — Ó Searcaigh in ‘an abyss’ after documentary —
5. — As for the first example, yes, a poem is marketing material to drive awareness of a poet —
6. — Backwards City Review is going out of business & Poetry magazine is now accepting electronic subs. —
7. — Nominations To Begin For 2008 Poet Laureate of The Blogosphere cast your vote —

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To whomever arrived here by searching “Did Anne Bradstreet win any awards?” … Thank you for asking! Yes! She did:

Vaſſar Miller Prize

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