Poetry News:
- — A Poem for the NCAA Basketball Tournament —
- — Death, destruction and fear on the streets of cafes, poets and booksellers —
- — What he would have us hearken to most closely is not the song the verse-maker spins inside his own head, but the common world’s melody, “the music of what happens” —
- — It seems that the challenges of living elicit the most eloquent and powerful verse, and sometimes that power is delivered in a quiet voice —
- — Wordclay Recognized as Site of the Week by PC Magazine —
- — He told his readers difficult truths about their lives … but he did so in a way which was oddly consoling in its honesty —
- — Hughes is a vigorous poet and the muscle of his language lifts the ordinary or overlooked experience, turns it about, holds it up to the light —
- — Jean Valentine, Poetry Faculty Member Since 1974, Named New York State Poet for 2008-2010 —
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