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Poetry News For January 15, 2010

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Jan 152010

— I’ve suggested, on a Read Write Poem discussion forum, that we have Feedback for presses and journals with contests, like Ebay. —

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— Henri Matisse A Celebration of French Poets & Poetry —

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— Sisters In Opium: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Louisa May Alcott —

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— Cormorant Books is launching a new line of poetry books, it was announced on Thursday. —

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— An uncannily accurate show about WB Yeats brings the great poet’s work to life —

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— WHEN he had stopped crying, Tsutomu Yamaguchi would tell you why he called his book of poems “The Human Raft”. —

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— The verses of the Orihuela poet, Miguel Hernández, are to be sent to the moon as part of the celebrations which are taking place this year to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his birth —

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— Today International PEN reported that PEN Haiti president Georges Anglade and his wife Mireille Neptune died in the earthquake that rocked the country Tuesday. —

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— Edwidge Danticat and Simon Winchester appeal for help to Haiti. —

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— Poems composed by Emperor Akihito, Empress Michiko, Crown Prince Naruhito, Crown Princess Masako and other members of the Imperial Family as well as 10 selected works by members of the general public were recited during the ceremony known in Japanese as “Utakai Hajime —

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— if you write poems about fairy tales, science fiction, or science, you owe it to yourself to check out the world o’ speculative poetry —

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— Scientists find a burst of neural activity at the transition between not seeing and seeing, revealing a clear threshold that must be crossed for perception to occur. —

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— Objects we want are seen as closer: If we really want something, that desire may influence how we view our surroundings. —

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— The Mary Karr reading last night @ the Hobby Center was nothing short of amazing! —

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— The Hartford Club will host a boxing exhibition Friday night as part of The Connecticut Young Writers Trust Triple Knockout event that includes writing workshops, music and poetry. —

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— Canseco reacts to McGwire: “There’s no crying in baseball” hahaha thanks —

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— Alan Lightman—scientist, essayist, novelist, and poet—takes on the big questions —

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— Still more of the Best Poetry Books of 2009 —

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— What is a Witch? What is a Poet? What is a Poetess? —

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— American grad student works to bring late double A-bomb survivor’s poetry to U.S. —

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— Book art is a treat for the eyes at Oakland University gallery —

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Have a good weekend, poets.

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Poetry News For January 4, 2010

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Jan 042010

— WB Yeats and Sigmund Freud works posted on Wikipedia as copyright expires —

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— A celebration of the great writers who died in the past decade —

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— Rachel Wetzsteon, Poet of Keen Insights and Wit, Dies at 42 —

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— PBS NewsHour : A profile of Russian poet Vera Pavlova, who will release her first collection of poems in English, “If There is Something to Desire,” next month. —

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— Though the strategies of women writing in Ireland today are various, most avoid the lure of idyll. Campbell’s own cunning sideways take on the masculine pastoral has Mother Ireland as a furious farmer’s wife, while These Women is her tribute to the work-hardened women who “make happen the full wake, /the kettle hopping, the oven warm”. —

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— W.H. Auden turns out to have been a huge fan of Lord of the Rings —

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— A Scottish poet who killed himself after being rejected by a publisher is to be remembered on the 200th anniversary of his death. —

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— The results of the 13th annual Mainichi Haiku Contest are in! —

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— Co-created by Mike Hazard and Deb Wallwork, the half-hour film is a look at the mysterious Chinese poet Han Shan, or “Cold Mountain” (no one knows his birth name – he took the name of the place where he lived). —

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— tag cloud for this blog sorry it disappeared when I changed servers/hosts and reinstalled this blog. I have a new post on my “affliction blog” too. —

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— Poet James M. Nack was born 4 January 1809, and wrote a poem for New Year’s Day for his daughter Eveline —

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— Connecticut Puts Out Call For New Poet Laureate —

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— Lake Superior State University 2010 List of Banished Words —

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— Amy Goodman: The poetic justice of poet Dennis Brutus —

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— Author creates home for misfit words —

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— “It’s fair to say that piracy of e-books is exploding,” said Albert Greco, an industry expert and professor of marketing at Fordham University. —

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— There is no better way to get words on paper than letterpress,” Mr. Torosian said. “The beauty, the letter forms are so architectural and sculptural, they are so tangible,” —

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— Running the small press section at Powell’s in Portland and running my own little press has put me in a position to see a lot of cool stuff from authors before anyone else has even heard of them. 2009 was no exception. Here are the highlights from my own personal reading list… —

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— Is it time to revive the Christmas tradition of the chapbook? —

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— To MFA or Not to MFA? —

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— Obsessive Freak Abner Doubleday Forces Locals To Play Nonsensical Game —

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— “….essays on Sylvia Plath and Material Culture. We’re still accepting submissions…” —

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— The hymn-like metre combines with the Romantic, Keatsian image of the thrush to produce one of Hardy’s most lyrical poems —

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— For Rumi, love is the astrolabe of God’s mysteries and the animating force of creation —

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— the next review submission deadline for Galatea Resurrects has been set at April 15, 2010. —

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— kelsey letterpress (chattanooga) $450 —

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— In her final installment of “In the Pursuit of Happiness,” Maira Kalman considers George Washington’s extraordinary life. —

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— Tom Waits reads Charles Bukowski —

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— For all those poets who died young of tuberculosis, alcoholism, drug abuse or suicide, there are many who aged gracefully and expired of old age. —

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— the southern review seeks submissions from women poets —

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— Small Publisher Finds Its Mission in Translation —

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— On Reviewing: Ron Silliman [and a blogfull of other interviews about reviewing] —

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— ypolita press is back! —

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— DIAGRAM is fresh & congrats on turning 10. —

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— Wallace Berman created a Beat poet’s version of Pop Art. —

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— A Centennial Salute To Johnny Mercer —

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— Although he felt his position as Poet Laureate cramped his creative style, Sir Andrew Motion, pictured, is now considering throwing his hat into the ring for the post of Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. —

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— There are different kinds of sweat and tears—the hours spent on the particular poem and the hours spent in the reading and writing and thinking involved in learning the craft. Often long hours and days and weeks of work on a poem that never works out or comes to life precedes a poem that seems to come almost fully formed. —

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— Saturday poem: Andrew Motion’s elegy for WG Sebald —

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— A poet translates the Hebrew Bible in a contemporary idiom. —

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— The idea is basically to publish a bi-monthly poetry newsletter highlighting new and recently published work by Michigan writers (or writers with connections to Michigan). —

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— Angelique Irvin isn’t your typical defense contractor: she’s a suburban mom who swears by organic products, and the daughter of the founder of the literary journal Calyx (which was started in her childhood bedroom). —

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— Recently he watched all 80 of the Chaplin movies and wrote a series of 106 haiku about them; this chapbook is a selection of 52 of these —

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— Poetry You Need To Read: Nin Andrews’ ‘Southern Comfort’ — Entertainment Weekly —

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— Forgotten Authors No.45: Winifred Watso —

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— Poetry: “Boys Born Zombie” —

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— A grant will take poetry off the pages and put it in the paths of city residents and visitors. —

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— MilSpeak: Warriors, Veterans, Family and Friends Writing the Military Experience New coupon code for the anthology eBook – NC64F. This code is good until Jan 31, 2011! Download a FREE copy of the anthology and help raise awareness about creative works by military people. Your action will also help to keep Milspeak Foundation programs free. You can also choose to pay for the book – the entire purchase price, less distributor cost, goes directly to Milspeak Foundation, a charitable organization that exists to serve those who serve.—

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— The group’s third album, “London Calling,” which was released in the US on Jan. 5, 1980 — 30 years ago Tuesday — expanded the definition of punk rock, and brought music in general to new heights —

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— Digital distractions hinder productivity, creativity, UW media expert says —

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— Consider this Part II of Poetry Collections to come in 2010 —

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— Weekly Poem: ‘Longing’ from NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS – Dennis Brutus was a South African poet and activist up until his death on Saturday at the age of 85 at his home in Cape Town. —

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— Vic Chesnutt On Mountain Stage —

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— Join Rafael & Brett-Candace as they talk to Afaa Michael Weaver http://www.afaamweaver.com/ In 1951, Afaa Michael Weaver (Michael S. Weaver) was born in Baltimore. He attended the Baltimore Public Schools, and at sixteen began studying at the University of Maryland in College Park as an engineering student. He left the university to begin his fifteen year career as a blue collar worker, which was his literary apprenticeship. During this time he wrote and published poetry, short fiction, and journalism. In addition, he founded 7th Son Press and the literary magazine Blind Alleys. From 1970-73, He served in the armed forces in the 342nd Army Security Agency as a reservist and received an honorable discharge. [mp3] —

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— Living Writers – WCBN Ann Arbor: T Hetzel interviews Matthew Dickman [mp3] —

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— Helen Losse is the author of Better With Friends, published by Rank Stranger Press in 2009 and the Poetry Editor of The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. She has two chapbooks, Gathering the Broken Pieces and Paper Snowflakes. Her recent poetry publications and acceptances include The Wild Goose Poetry Review, Main Street Rag, Iodine Poetry Review, Blue Fifth Review, Heavy Bear, and Hobble Creek Review. She has poems in two anthologies: In the Arms of Words: Poems For Disaster Relief and Washing the Color of Water Golden: A Hurricane Katrina Anthology. Four of Losse’s poems were selected by NC Poet Laureate Kathryn Stripling Byer to be included with the works of two other poets in “August 21-27, 2006: A Bouquet of Poems by Winston-Salem Poets” on the website of the North Carolina Arts Council. Losse’s poem, “Four Snapshots of the Sea-Going Boats” won first place for poetry, 2009 Adult Writing Contest of the Davidson County (NC) Writer’s Guild. Educated at Missouri Southern State and Wake Forest Universities, Helen Losse lives in Winston-Salem, NC. She occasionally writes book reviews for various venues. [mp3] —

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— Heather Derr-Smith was born in Dallas, Texas in 1971. She spent most of her childhood in Fredericksburg, Virginia. She received her undergraduate degree in Art History from the University of Virginia, where she also took poetry workshops with Charles Wright, Rita Dove, and Greg Orr. She went on to earn her M.F.A. in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her first book, entitled “Each End of the World”, was a collection of poetry about the war in Bosnia in the 1990′s and was published my Main Street Rag Press in 2005. Her second collection, entitled “The Bride Minaret” was published at University of Akron Press. [mp3] —

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Poetry News For July 17, 2009

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Jul 172009

— DEATH OF OSCAR WILDE; He Expires at an Obscure Hotel in the Latin Quarter of Paris. Is Said to Have Died from Meningitis, but There Is a Rumor that He Committed Suicide. Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES. December 1, 1900, Wednesday —

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— As for the last line that “Man has created death”, it’s often quoted out of context from the poem. There are two thoughts I have for this. —

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— Mill Valley couple embraces literary vanguard with experimental poetry —

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— And so, this month’s challenge is to write a poem on the theme of history. —

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— Adam Zagajewski with Edward Hirsch from Lannan Podcasts by Lannan Foundation [mp3]—

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— Canadian sci-fi pioneer Phyllis Gotlieb passes away —

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— Poetry Tips: Title Up At The Used Book Store —

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— Brooks, H. D., and Rukeyser: Three Women Poets in the First Century of World Wars —

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— “The cover image was created by Zach Kleyn (that is Earhart’s Electra, and my hand)” —

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— Starbucks Corp. (SBUX) is scrubbing its name from a Seattle location in favor of the store’s street address in a test that could sprout more stores that seem more like the corner coffee shop rather than the global coffee giant. —

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— “I am fascinated by these photos from State Fairs.” —

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— It’s not uncommon to come across a feverish poetry enthusiasts who will turn a blacker tone of rage when they discover that a poet they’ve taken a liking to turns out not base everything that comes from their typing fingers on real experience. —

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Poetry News For July 3, 2009

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— Amy Lowell As a Leader in Contemporary Letters; MRS. MEYNELL’S ESSAYS, January 29, 1922, Sunday Section: Book Review & Magazine —

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— Is the State of Contemporary Poetry Healthy? – Quote of the Day / William Logan —

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— Poetry scrubbed out —

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— Waterboys set Yeats poems to music —

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— “The machine was an IBM electronic computer—one of the new “giant brains” which differ from previous computing and tabulating machines in that they function with the speed of light— 186,000 miles per second.” —

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— National Trust row over Kenyan poet’s bequest —

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— Amid Recession Economists Embrace Haiku —

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— Clip Job: When Poets Battled the Bureaucrats —

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— Ich Denke Dein — a love poem by Goethe, in English and in German —

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— What to Read Now. And Why (not very many women, evidently) —

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— Inquiry reopened in discovery of poet’s remains —

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— Rustbelt Roethke workshop draws authors for July event —

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Poetry News For July 2, 2009

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— POETS WHO MUST OR WHO MAY WRITE; Three Writers of Verse Whose Work Illustrates Afresh the Wisdom of Horace E. Scudder’s Two Questions THE SINGLE HOUND. By Emily Dickinson. With an Introduction by Martha Dickinson Blanchi. Little, Brown & Co. ONE WOMAN TO ANOTHER AND OTHER POEMS. By Corinne Roosevelt Robinson. Charles Scribner’s Sons. $1.25. IN DEEP PLACES. By Amelia Josephine Burr. George H. Doran Company. $1. September 19, 1915, Sunday, Section: Review of Books, Page BR333, 2021 words —

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— Another Author Lets Loose Over Bad Review Via the Internet —

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— An Era of Détente for Creative-Writing Programs <-- they updated link for free access to full article thank you ---

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— Summer Poetry Sale! —

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— bad, bad, bad… —

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— Rhyme, Meter, and Poetry for Children —

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— On McSweeney’s: “Comments written by actual students extracted from workshopped manuscripts at a major university.” —

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— In May, we marked the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s sonnets by asking NPR listeners and readers to write in with modern love poems or songs that they think will be remembered 400 years from now. Here are a few of those suggestions. —

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— Wislawa Szymborska: “One hole in the net” —

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— CUE …is fresh. —

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— Gunn’s ‘Movement’ —

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— Each of these collections poses elusive questions whose answers, embedded in the asking, form the basis of eloquent poems. —

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— Bangladesh have reportedly picked up Indian national Jibon Singh, the main suspect of the theft case of Nobel Prize Medal of Poet Rabindranath Tagore —

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— Sarabande Books will accept submissions during the month of July for The Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature. —

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— in the poem, Revere arrives in Concord at 2 a.m., but in reality, he was detained by the British at a roadblock in Lincoln on the way to nearby Concord. —

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— Cornelius Eady and Sarah Micklem Do the Write Thing —

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— “The purpose of this showcase event is to celebrate the literary journals that give us poets a place for our work.” —

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— The collection as a whole hangs together with the shape and atmosphere of René Magritte’s surreal painting —

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— The first step to getting published —

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— The Waterboys will perform a series of five concerts at the national theatre around St Patrick’s Day, with frontman Mike Scott, Irish fiddler Steve Wickham and guest musicians performing An Appointment with Mr Yeats, combining the poetry of Yeats with the passion of the Waterboys’ music. —

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— They might be the zit-ridden little brothers of science fiction geeks, but fantasy readers still deserve our respect —

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— It seems my recent Billy Collins post has garnered much interest and discussion, so thank you all for your comments. I am always glad to have these conversations, though I am interested in folks’ responses to my Kay Ryan post. —

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— new cat alert —

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— Karen is also part of the Fourth Plinth project, meaning she’ll be standing on the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square for an hour July 31 reading poetry and tweeting about it. —

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— Even from the bleak perspective of the arts and humanities as a whole, the outlook for literary study per se is especially grim. and part two—

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No visit from the birds today, so no new pics.

Here’s an article on Ehlers-Danlos syndrome that was in a newspaper.

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Poetry News For June 22, 2009

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— Nonsense, Shenanigans and Damn Fine Poetry: West Chester, 2009 —

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— How YouTube separates porn from poetry —

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— PROTRACTED TYPE: a collection of visual poetry. 270 pages, Blue Lion Books, 2009 FREE download or you can buy it —

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— THE NATIONAL Library is not a venue where you expect to hear sex discussed, but WB Yeats’s sex life and the poems it inspired in his final decade was the key topic of a lively public talk there by Prof Roy Foster. —

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— The Crosbys: literature’s most scandalous couple —

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— At a deeper level, Orpheus is the mythical prototype of the poet, standing for the magical power of language and music, particularly over death. —

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— John Siddique is enchanted by the glimpse readers have offered into their secret worlds of the night in this month’s poetry workshop —

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— On this edition of The Poets Weave, Heather Derr-Smith reads from her new book The Bride Minaret the poems “Cover,” “Bloom,” and “Iraqi-Style Fish Shop, Damascus.” —

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— A candle for Neda, Iran —

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— James Campbell on the gestation and strange life of William Burroughs’ Naked Lunch —

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— Can women write about sex? —

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— …the Twitter sensibility has no room for literate articulation. To read and write you have to enjoy being alone, quiet, and static. That’s not what tech fosters. I —

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— The Library of Congress posted a photo: —

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— The collection had originally been offered as a unit, with the hope that an institution such as a library might buy it. —

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— Pages from History: Emerson:The Boston Brahmin —

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— Poet’s Choice By Katha Pollitt: Katha Pollitt —

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— Human nature, philosophical nature, the nature of place and identity, as well as deftly detailed portraits of the physical landscape — they all form the spine of this remarkable volume, which features 71 poems written over the last 20 years —

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— Students, street-level poets converge to create thriving poetry scene in Wichita —

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— Roky Erickson set to return to Houston after 25 years fixed link —

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— Iran: Poets find inspiration in revolution and Chaucer on it: Helas, myn eyne are ful of teres and wepynge for the peple of Iran who marchen yn the streetz and are faced doun by the will of schrewes and wikked men and tirauntz. —

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— Nonverbal Reviews and Adaptations of Women’s Poetry —

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— Welcome to The Chapbook Review’s first issue. —

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— Ian McClean feels privileged to have witnessed Yeats’ historic moment of Ascot glory —

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— Frances Dean Smith, a Santa Monica poet known as FrancEyE who was inspired by Charles Bukowski, lived with him and had a child with him in the 1960s, has died. —

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— Patti Smith’s poems sap the spirit —

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Poetry News For June 17, 2009

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Jun 172009

— While there are many female poets in Korea, her lyrical poems from a woman’s perspective on life and things show boldness and beauty, and have made her a favorite of Korean poetry lovers —

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— Cirque founder will take poetry into orbit —

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— Malla, Dodds take home Trillium Book Awards —

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— Ask a Poet —

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— Catherine Carter, an assistant professor of English at Western Carolina University, has won the 2009 Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition, —

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— Poem of the week: The Parable of the Old Man and the Young, by Wilfred Owen —

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— Poem of the week: From A Midsummer Night’s Dream —

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— Exclusive: Patti Smith interview —

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— Obama Picks G.O.P. Ex-Congressman to Lead National Endowment for the Humanities —

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— The 13th annual Mainichi Haiku Contest is now open! For information on the contest and how to apply, please click here. —

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— Happy the poet whose life and work remain so well-remembered that his name becomes an adjective. —

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— ‘Poets for Palestine’ negotiates an imagined better future, harsh reality —

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— Based on the turbulent life of the celebrated Russian poet, The Ships Pass Quietly was originally produced at The Blue Room to acclaim with Vivienne Glance as Akhmatova. —

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— Spirit bear captured on camera —

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— Juan Felipe Herrera’s “Half of the World in Light” collection wins the International Latino Book Award. —

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— The new poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, has chosen to attack politicians in her first composition in the post —

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— Poets reveal the strangest places they’ve ‘done it’ —

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— Nonfiction/Poetry Reviews: Publishers Weekly, 6/15/2009 —

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— Women of the futurists —

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— Paul Muldoon reads and discusses his own work. [mp3] —

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— Happy Birthday, Gwendolyn Brooks! —

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— Higher-ed pinching pushes college presses to brink —

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— Happy Birthday, William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet and Dramatist —

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