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Poetry News For June 9, 2008

Poetry News:

— Comparing the Processing of Music and Language Meaning Using EEG and fMRI Provides Evidence for Similar and Distinct Neural Representations —

— Poetry can be true without being True —

— Lamantia anticipated by decades the elegant involutions and torqued interiority made familiar to us by other poets influenced by Surrealism such as Paul Celan and John Ashbery —

— “I must have been a fierce particle,” she marveled in a 2003 conversation with Spires. —

— Of verse and violent crime —

— A Yale-educated WASP, Matthews mocked the tight-lipped stoicism that was his birthright, while elevating it into high style. —

— “It’s for everybody,” she said. “It’s music. If you love music, you love poetry. It’s for everyone.” —

— Just when Almereyda has inclined us to the notion that agitprop can be noble, sincere and effective, Night Wraps The Sky accounts for the simultaneous unraveling of Mayakovsky’s life and Lenin’s communism. —

— a list of print journals that accept email submissions —

— As a new biopic probes the life and loves of Dylan Thomas, the writer’s daughter gives her verdict to biographer Andrew Lycett —

America has always struggled to live up to ideals expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the freedoms written by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution. Nowhere has this idea played out more visibly than on the baseball field where men and women have fought to cross racial, cultural, and gender barriers for the equal opportunity to play the game. In conjunction with our spring 2008 exhibit, Baseball as America, the National Constitution Center presents “Baseball: The Melting Pot,” a special conversation about the ways in which the game of baseball has served as a reflection of our social tensions as well as ideals, and our struggle to become a more inclusive society: MP3.